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FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



STILL-BAITING FOR PICKEREL. 



tree of ancient renown, and there beside you place your books. 

 Then bait your hook, and cast it off among the lily-pads or 

 stumps which margin the pond, and gaze away on vacancy. 

 There is naught set down against smoking at such a place 

 on such occasions. Let the birds bill and coo in the grove 

 behind you, and if your mind is intent on developing a new 

 theory, let your bait creep up on a stump near you, to the 



