SAYINGS. 



A trout that is not hungry will no more look at an 

 angler's bait than a respectable man will look at a giblet pie. 



* * 



Patience and hope are two cardinal virtues in anglers 

 -especially, and, like original sin and the whooping-cough, 

 every angler has 'em some time or other. 



A fiddle is like a baby, there is only one good one in the 

 world, and every mother and every fiddler has it. 



The only place I know where you can rely on finding 

 Nothing is in the bottle where the whisky was. You may 

 shake your head, my teetotal friend, there is nothing in it. 



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You cannot catch fish if they are opposed to the idea, 

 any more than you can reduce the hump on a dromedary's 

 back by linseed-poulticing it. 



You might as well look for whiskers on sardines as expect 

 to rise a good trout after he has once had a fair look at you. 



