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and sportsman-like method, furnishing both 

 greater variety of sport and superior phys- 

 ical exercise. 



But on a lazy summer day there certainly 

 is a fitness and charm about fishing at one's 

 ease from a boat along the lily-pads, waiting 

 with a pleasant anticipatory thrill for the 

 tug on the line that announces the strike of 

 pike or pickerel a charm that one misses 

 if tramping along the bank in the sweltering 

 sun. Even if the angler serves as his own 

 oarsman, facing the stern, with the line 

 gripped in his teeth, the exercise is neces- 

 sarily so gentle and almost dreamily dally- 

 ing, as to seem little more than a rhythmic 

 swaying of the body, in harmony with the 

 languid pulsations of air stealing over the 

 meadows. The old and accustomed fisher- 

 man, by a kind of instinct or clairvoyance, 

 divines the windings of the stream, and 

 urges his craft noiselessly along, keeping 

 always just outside the fringing weeds and 

 lilies, that his hooks may not foul in them. 

 Even the novice finds that an occasional 

 quick, sidewise glance enables him to keep 

 his bearings, and he soon acquires the art 

 of feeling his way along, while his attention 

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