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birds, and, all things considered, I would just as soon be 

 without them upon a salmon river, for, although it is 

 amusing to watch their movements while resting, I can 

 well dispense with them while fishing, for I am weak 

 enough to allow them to distract my attention from the 

 more serious business in hand. 



RIVER AT HEAD OF VOSSEVANGEN LAKE. 



I bear no malice against the waterhen, which nearly 

 makes me jump out of my few senses as she scuttles out 

 of the bank-side of a British river within a few yards of 

 my feet, as I wade some pool which fishes best without 

 an artificial ripple, for I suppose I should have made 

 sufficient noise to have atforded her advice of my 



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