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tered between his teeth, and a look at me 

 that expressed as plainly as possible the 

 words "Poor deluded fool ! " he turned 

 away. Next day, however, he was back 

 again at the riverside for such is the 

 fascination of fishing ! 



Delightful as it is to snatch a good 

 day's sport in July or August, when a 

 heavy rainfall has washed clean the hot 

 and dusty surface of the earth, when the 

 air is as fresh as that of May, and the 

 streams are swollen with a flood of that 

 foamy pale-ale description so loved by 

 fishermen, such days are like angels' 

 visits, and if we would catch trout during 

 the brief holiday that custom has or- 

 dained shall fall at the tail end of the sum- 

 mer, we must adapt ourselves to the con- 

 ditions of the water that generally prevail 

 at that season. We must not live in the 

 vain hope that Jupiter Pluvius will turn 

 away from his wrath, and to-morrow or 

 next day make the mountain rills to rip- 



