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INTRODUCTORY 



WITH most of Stewart's practice and the 

 outcome of his teaching as a north country 

 angler we agree, because, during all our novi- 

 tiate and practice, and all the more strongly 

 of later years (after many seasons mostly 

 devoted to salmon-fishing), we have ever 

 been enthusiastically an upholder of the 

 up-stream method of angling for trout, and 

 that almost from the first time we perused 

 Stewart's invaluable treatise. As a boy we 

 had practised it, and again as a 'grown- 

 up.' 



Since then we have read and studied 

 every succeeding edition and compared 

 them, noting the changes and slight altera- 

 tions in the texts of each, which in several 

 cases are modifications of the originals, 

 according as the seasons may have altered, 

 or as trout have become more educated (or 

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