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A TWEEDSIDE SKETCH 



THE story of the following adventure this deplor- 

 able confession, one may say will not have been 

 written in vain if it impresses on young minds 

 the supreme necessity of carefulness about details. 

 Let the ' casual ' and regardless who read it the 

 gatless, as they say in Suffolk ponder the lesson 

 which it teaches : a lesson which no amount of 

 bitter experience has ever impressed on the un- 

 principled narrator. Never do anything carelessly 

 whether in fishing or in golf, and carry this im- 

 portant maxim even into the most serious affairs 

 of life. Many a battle has been lost, no doubt, by 

 lack of ammunition, or by plenty of ammunition 

 which did not happen to suit the guns ; and many 

 a salmon has been lost, ay, and many a trout, for 

 want of carefulness, and through a culpable in- 



