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and knees. In some cases, it is true, he may 

 procure the shelter of a hurdle interwoven with 

 boughs, or he may adopt some similar artifice ; 

 but many cases must occur where he can trust to 

 concealment only by prostration, or stooping low. 

 I place this chapter immediately after those 

 connected with artificial fly-fishing, for which I 

 consider it an occasional substitute, necessitated by 

 locality and the state of the water and weather. 

 He who has become accomplished in the practice 

 of artificial fly-fishing, will quickly become an 

 adept in the gentler exercise of angling with the 

 natural fly and other living insects. 



