DOWN STREAM 



out other fishes. When the time comes 

 for him to go back he will go back the 

 same way, waxed fat indeed, but still 

 unseen, devious, self-possessed, and un- 

 cannily shrewd. 



That he may live to go back he in- 

 spects carefully the worms which may 

 drop into the cool shadows where he 

 lurks. When he is about to take your 

 bait you need to be keen to know what 

 is going on, for he suspects you, and 

 your least untoward motion of rod or 

 line will cause him to slip back like a 

 shadow into his cavern, and there will 

 be no bite from him on that hook after 

 that. You will say that it cannot pos- 

 sibly be a bite; the bob simply stops and 

 the hook has no doubt caught on a snag 

 on bottom. If you are not wise enough 

 to know better you will pull up here lest 

 you lose your hook, and in so doing you 

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