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boots or a Lincoln and Bennett brushed the 

 wrong way, or when one has to use ' flees 

 that are not flies/ as big as a ' bumble-bee ' 

 or the historical ' bee in the bonnet.' And if 

 we do, and bring the bigger trout home, we do 

 not eat them unless, like the man with the 

 bad egg, we try to ' pick out the best bits/ 

 We have known the same experiences when 

 the so-called ' finnocks,' caught by the sack- 

 ful, basketful, or trayful in early spring in our 

 estuarial waters, have been and constantly 

 are thrown out to the pigs. Just as soon 

 1 shoot a hen pheasant on Sunday morn ; on 

 a midsummer day, in standing corn/ Says 

 Stewart : ' It is unsportsmanlike in the 

 highest degree to kill fish that are of no 

 use/ and 'they are never in condition till 

 they get abundance of insect food ' (op. cit. 

 pp. 22, 23). 



The question of 'butchery' spoken of by 

 Stewart, and his estimates of possibilities 

 in the way of large baskets, comes up. If 

 the ( sport ' of angling lies in the capture of 

 fish, it seems evident that the more fish the 

 better sport. We agree with this, but we 

 reserve the opinion, that such is not ' sport ' 



