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aged fourteen months. He is, alas, so 

 ignorant of all the pleasures and mysteries 

 of wet-fly fishing, that I am placing his 

 name on record, in the hope that, per- 

 chance when I am gone, he may study 

 what T have written herein, and, starting 

 where I have left off, may become, not 

 only a skilful but a scientific fly-fisherman, 

 and as great an enthusiast as his grand- 

 father was before him. 



E. M. TOD. 



EDINBURGH, March, 1903. 



