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with ease take many of them in that nick out of the 

 water, before you have any occasion to use them. 

 These, my honest Scholar, are some observations 

 told to you as they now come suddenly into my 

 memory, of which you may make some use : but 

 for the practical part, it is that that makes an 

 Angler : it is diligence, and observation, and prac- 

 tice, and an ambition to be the best in the art that 

 must do it. I will tell you, Scholar, I once heard 

 one say, " I envy not him that eats better meat 

 " than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears 

 " better clothes than I do : I envy nobody but him, 

 " and him only, that catches more fish than I do." 

 And such a man is like to prove an Angler ; and 

 this noble emulation I wish to you and all young 

 Anglers. 



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