ON ANGLING. 



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taken a neophyte to the river bank to watch and to be im- 

 pressed by the practice of a past-master of the gentle art 

 of throwing the fly, and he has been impressed indeed. But 

 the point which has seemed to impress him more than any 

 other is the splash with which part of that master-craftsman's 

 line has gone into the water. " Why ! " I have known such 

 an one exclaim : " He makes the deuce and all of a splash ! " 

 So he does the deuce and all. But what the neophyte 



DOWN-STREAM CASTING IN A RUSHING STREAM OR BURN. 



