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think, perhaps, of some day when they, 

 too, shall sit behind a bamboo rod and 

 have their dirty little lumps of dough. 

 The bottom-fisher himself contemplates 

 with wonder the mysterious ways of the 

 trout-fisher, who, again, in his turn casts 

 a look of commiseration towards his 

 humbler brother of the duckpondwhom 

 the tame ducks worry so. But the ang- 

 ler of the trout stream is often far from 

 being the object of such complete con- 

 tentment that some may take him to be, 

 for, even as the bottom-fisher may aspire 

 towards trout, so he, the trout-fisher, 

 especially if he be poor, may nurse the 

 hope that he will one day land a mighty 

 salmon, or have a gaff-armed gillie, rug- 

 ged of face and sandy-whiskered, to do 

 it for him. 



Of all the articles of the angler's faith, 



no one is held in such veneration as that 



which ordains that certain flies shall and 



must be used under given conditions, 



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