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THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME 

 FISH OF THE PEOPLE 



THESE be parlous times in angling. Parlous Times 

 When William King, in the seven- 

 teenth century, with as much prophecy as 

 humor, wrote: 



"His hook he baited with a dragon's tail 

 And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale, ' ' 



he builded better than he knew. And if 

 Job had lived in the twentieth century, the 

 query: " Canst thou draw out Leviathan 

 with an hook? " would be answered in the 

 affirmative; also, it would be demon- 

 strated that " He maketh the deep to boil 

 like a pot," at Fort Myers and Catalina. 



The shades of Walton and Cotton, of 

 Sir Humphrey Davy and " Christopher 



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