8 LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 



these latter birds having fallen to a duffer's share, 

 who, as it happened, was quite a good shot. Exclaimed 

 he at the end of the day, " Well, I never saw such 

 wonderful luck as you two had with the ducks, for 

 wherever you went, up they got to you." Our friend 

 did not for a moment realise that what he called *' our 

 luck " was but the reward reaped by eyes educated to 

 *' spotting " every likely place, and that his own bad 

 luck had resulted solely from his inability to do the 

 same, and approach the likely places as much unseen 

 as possible and directly up-wind. 



Many anglers are equally careless and correspondingly 

 unsuccessful fishermen from being too lazy or too proud 

 to learn the Spey cast ; they have started their fishing 

 career on a river with open banks, where the overhead 

 cast could be used on every part, and then when their 

 time eventually comes to fish some river where this 

 cast cannot be brought into play, they are totally 

 defeated and get no sport; and in my opinion no one 

 can be called a good angler who cannot use from either 

 shoulder both sorte of casts. 



