128 THROWING AMONG TREES. 



Fig. i. 



A 



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vals to overhang the bank : though you cannot 

 throw at all if they project further than half the 

 length of your rod, and though I cannot suggest 

 any plan that would enable you to throw to A , be- 

 cause they do project that much, and because of 

 the trees behind ; if, instead of throwing with the 

 rod held perpendicularly, as in the , ordinary 

 manner, you can go through the motions I first 

 prescribed, holding your rod horizontally over 

 the river, and directly pointing to the opposite 

 bank, you will be enabled to throw a short line 

 anywhere up or down the stream. 



Herb. But would not the surface of the water 

 prevent the circle of the point of the rod you 

 described ? 



Theoph. I must not forget to mention that 

 long before you ought to attempt these difficulties, 

 you will be able to avoid whipping off fties, though 

 instead of a semi-circle and straight line, you 

 form an entire but much elongated ellipsis with 

 the point of your rod ; and thus it is, you are 



