CHAPTER X 

 Some Memories of Early Days 



EVERY angler must have some account to give 

 of the beginning of his keenness for angling. 

 Some of us remember it as the great excite- 

 ment of our boyhood, whilst others have only 

 discovered its existence in later years of life. 

 I think, however, that the keenest anglers are 

 born and not made ; that the passion is latent in 

 them from the beginning, and is revealed sooner 



or later according to opportunity. In some case* 



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it may be that the passion perishes unsuspected 

 and unrevealed, because there is no opportunity of 

 indulging or discovering it, till too late in life. 

 The longer we live the deeper becomes the groove 

 or the rut in which our life moves, and the more 



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