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your line, the only way, if it persists, is to go home 

 and develop an interest in parish pump politics 

 or foreign wars, anything in fact but bass, until 



BAITING WITH SAND-EEL 



another tide has washed the estuary out and 

 perchance driven away the plague. When, how- 

 ever, it is by another man's line that your own is 

 fouled, and in circumstances that leave you in 

 no doubt whatever that fault was entirely his or 



