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line, he hauls the helpless fish ashore with as 

 much ease as a steam-vessel tows after it a cock- 

 boat. All that delicacy of hand all that ex- 

 citement from the moment a fish is hooked un- 

 til he is safely landed all that care in playing 

 a fish which accompanies the fly-fisher, is 

 unknown to the minnow-fisher. He spins his 

 minnow, hooks his fish firmly, and every danger 

 is over ! He is a John-Bull fisher he builds 

 not upon sand his calculation is that of 

 positive gain he coolly smiles at the poesy 

 of fly-fishing he is a down-right matter-ofr 

 fact prose personage he is right, and we are 

 wrong. Be it so. We had rather err with 



Plato than We forget the rest of the 



quotation, and, perhaps, for certain reasons, it 

 is as well we do. There are persons, notwith- 

 standing, of that happy versatility of talent and 

 disposition, who, whilst they practise minnow- 

 fishing with extreme success, and understand it 

 to perfection, are equally versed in fly-fishing, 

 and have taste and imagination enough to con- 

 sider it the more agreeable, and by far the less 

 exceptionable of the two modes of angling for 

 trout. A gentleman aye, every inch a gen- 

 tleman of the latter character Maitland 

 Dashwood, Esq. kindly taught us that mode 

 of trolling with the minnow, which, as we con- 



