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you will draw to the spot most of the gudgeon in 

 the immediate vicinity, and very probably kill the 

 majority of them. You must then move to another 

 spot, and repeat the artificial discolouration of the 

 water, as before. Mudding the water is the grand 

 secret of success in gudgeon angling. 



One word of advice in this penultimate page to 

 the reader. Let him put in practice one maxim 

 which I wish I had always done, viz. that of Dr. 

 Warburton c repetition is the soul of instruc- 

 tion.' Whenever he finds on a first perusal, any 

 passage of the preceding pages obscure, let him 

 re-peruse it attentively, and I flatter myself the 

 obscurity will disappear. If it do not, let him 

 try a third time, and if then a difficulty remain, 

 the fault most probably will be mine. Still the 

 reader will have done well, for having persevered. 

 In like manner, should anything I teach seem at 

 first difficult to be practised well, let reiterated 

 attempts be made towards the attainment of per- 

 fection, and I am confident that the result of 

 repetition will be surprise that a thing found, 

 after some little patient practice, of such easy 

 accomplishment, should ever have been considered 

 otherwise. 



This light labour of mine is on the point of 

 ceasing. I may now write finis coronat opus, 

 whether with a complaisant thought or not, none, 

 save myself, can know. I have finished with the 



