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trout. It only proves the occasional caprice of the fish, 

 and the influence which a very minute circumstance, 

 namely the want of the organs of vision or some such 

 deficiency in the bait, may have over their inclinations. 

 I think, therefore, the system of capping the minnow 

 not at all a judicious one, and indeed, if adopted in 

 connection with the most approved form of tackle, 

 scarcely practicable. 



