ANGLING SKETCHES 



THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER 



/ HESE papers do not boast 

 of great sport. They are 

 truthful, not like the tales 

 some fishers tell. 

 They should ap- 

 peal to many sym- 

 pathies. There is 



no false modesty in the confidence with \vhich I 

 esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men 

 are born duffers ; others, unlike persons of genius, 

 become so by an infinite capacity for not taking 



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