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through both lips of the bait, allowing it to 

 swim here and there at some distance from 

 him, and rather near the bottom of the water. 

 He uses a float in order to determine how far 

 the bait is sunk. He allows the fish considera- 

 ble time to gorge the gudgeon, and then he 

 lands him with as little delay as possible. He 

 perch fishes exactly in the same way, except 

 that he uses a much smaller hook, tied on 

 stout gut, and that his bait is a rather small- 

 sized minnow. He generally wades, where the 

 river will allow it, and fishes right on before 

 him. Under his guidance we have frequently 

 had excellent sport in divers parts of the river 

 Trent, particularly at Beeston Weir, an excel- 

 lent fishing station near Nottingham, and 

 where before this summer be over, if health 

 be spared us, we will once more join him and a 

 party of right true friends, and if we cannot 

 catch fish we can " spin tough yarns," Decame- 

 ron-like, in some shady nook of Clifton Grove. 

 And who knows but we may fall in with a 



shoal of . We hate to excite jealousy; 



but we hope that Sir Jukes has not succeeded 

 in shutting up the foot-path through the 

 grove, and that old Nottingham pours out 

 into its sylvan recesses its laughing gipsy- 

 parties as of yore.* 

 * We have used in several of the rivers in the south of 



