and Affectations 



its distant mission by a motion of his 

 forearm alone, while all above the 

 elbow is strapped to his side. We take 

 no risk in saying that such a thing 

 was never done on a fishing excursion, 

 and that the proposition in all its as- 

 pects is the baldest kind of a pretense. 

 As becomes a consistent member 

 of the fraternity of fishermen, I 

 have carefully avoided unfriendly 

 accusation in dealing with a branch 

 of fishing enthusiastically preferred 

 by a considerable contingent of 

 my associates. If, in lamenting the 

 faddishness that has grown up about 

 it, plain language has been used, 

 I have nevertheless been as tolerant 

 as the situation permits. No attempt 

 has been made to gain the applause 

 of pin-hook-and-sapling fishermen, 

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