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SPORT IN EUROPE 



We come now to that sport which, as I have said before, the great 

 Whyte Melville acknowledged to be nearly equal to a fine run with 

 the hounds. Salmon-fishing will be considered by 

 many the most exciting sport, not only in the British 

 Isles, but in the world. But alas! there are more than 

 two ways of catching salmon. There is the infernal net, which, I 



Salmon- 

 fishing. 



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know, has nothing to do with sport beyond spoiling it ; and there 

 is angling proper, with the worm and the shrimp, the minnow and 

 the fly. On some rivers one, or even two, of these lures are useless ; 

 the fish will not look at them, and the other two, on the other hand, 

 are deadly. But where salmon will take it, the fly stands out far 

 ahead of the others. And yet again there are two ways of fly-fishing ; 



