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looking after them would too much interfere 

 with your other spoit. 



As a contrast to the comparative mercy of set- 

 ting a trimmer in the way I have been showing, 

 is the following method ; practised, as I have 

 been credibly informed, by whom I know not, 

 nor do I wish to know a brute, and worse, with 

 two legs, which is a far milder name than such an 

 operator deserves, who catches a frog, scrapes his 

 back with a knife, and sprinkles him with aqua 

 fortis, to make him shriek and cry out, when thus 

 put upon the hook, and thrown on the water, to 

 entice his enemy the pike to come and devour 

 him ! 



" Contemplation and action" says Isaac Wal- 

 ton, " are combined in the art of angling." If 

 the above cruel process be the action, what must 

 the contemplation be ? Let us hope that no one, 

 save a thoughtless, uncontemplative person, could 

 resort to such a cruel, merciless, and surely we 

 may add fiendish method of pastime. 



Although we may have drawn a highly coloured 

 picture in the manner of setting a trimmer, yet 

 it serves to show what a difference exists in the 

 way you may set about it compared with the 

 merciful way I have been recommending. 



Careful management and a little extra trouble 



