FLY-FISHING IN MAINE LAKES, 



CHAPTER I. 



STARTING. 



E was a very good sort of a man, 

 but he had a weakness for going 

 a-fishing." 



If he who made this remark, in 

 speaking of one who had departed 

 this life, had profited by the les- 

 sons of the New Testament, he might have sur- 

 mised that perhaps the Master gave evidence of 

 superior wisdom in selecting his disciples, not from 

 those who bought and sold, and would fain have 

 pursued their mercenary traffic within the sacred 

 walls of the temple, but from those of an humble 

 calling, that hardy race of men who " go down to 



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