DOWN STREAM 



as a street urchin and as lively. He 

 has business with your bait the moment 

 it drops near him, and the bobbing cork 

 will show that it is he by the jaunty 

 vigor of its bobs. 



In fact, if you have learned the ways 

 of the down-stream country you will 

 know every fish that takes your bait 

 long before you have brought him to 

 the surface from the amber depths, just 

 by the way in which he bobs that float- 

 ing cork. The way of the " kiver " is 

 this. There is a single, snappy, busi- 

 ness-like bob, then another, then three 

 in quick succession in which he drags 

 the cork half under. If you strike just 

 at the right time during the succession 

 of three, when the line below is taut 

 with the strain of the float against the 

 pull of the fish, you shall have him. 

 Otherwise your cork will lift from the 

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