The Artist Goes A -Fishing 



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observe the easy grace of William's handling of a big trout that 

 had taken a Queen of the Waters with a rush and a plunge. This 

 one, neatly "grassed" on a shelving bank without troubling the 

 landing net, served as a further means of demonstration to the 

 scholar of the correct mode of grasping, unhooking, stunning, and 

 stringing a fish on a cut willow twig. Back to his casting went 

 the artist mentally repeating the running admonitions of hia 

 master in the gentle art. Turning his head a few minutes later, he 

 beheld with fresh delight the graceful arch of the senior's rod as he 

 came down the water from round the bend with yet another great 

 fellow on his line, fairly hooked. To the scholar the rod was 

 handed, the splendid speckled warrior on the line having already 

 been played for ten 

 minutes, and here, the 

 master's rod and own 

 fish in his hands, was 

 the scholar, under 

 direction, allowed the 

 privilege of finally 

 playing and landing 

 the greatest fish of 

 the afternoon, a four- 

 pound Salmo Clarkii. 

 Upstream then a hun- 

 dred yards, where, at 

 the mouth of a little 

 creek, the water pul- 

 sating with a mother- 

 of-pearl iridescence in 

 the evening light, the 

 great fish rose and leaped every passing 

 minute. Here, the while the scholar 

 practiced his casting, were two more 

 great beauties, taken on a Royal Coach- 

 man, added by William to the score. 

 Now it was sundown and the dark at hand. 

 Downstream ahead of William to the boat anc 

 the water originally fished, a few more casts 

 were made by the scholar. Then triumphantly 



