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weeks or so, and I was lucky to be able 

 to take it, angling for trout ! 



I could imagine nothing more aimless 

 and uninteresting than my holidays would 

 have been had I spent them otherwise. 



Of course, I write, not only as an angler, 

 but as a professed enthusiast. 



The interest the keen interest which 

 fly-fishing has always aroused in me, has 

 often given me fresh life when run down 

 by ill-health and, I am bound to add, 

 that I owe a debt to it, which I can barely 

 appreciate, and, certainly, never can 

 repay. 



But I must say no more of this. 



I have touched upon the fascinations of 

 burn fishing I have written about waters, 

 and rivers; and, I have endeavoured to 

 show how much interest there is to be got 

 from the patient study of fishing with the 

 wet fly. 



I hope, and I believe, that I have not 

 laboured wholly in vain. 



At times I have felt a consciousness of 

 not always being able to recall the little 

 one knows, a gentle reminder that a man's 

 memory "hath bounds and stays " at sixty- 

 four ! 



The more we know of any subject we 



