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enough to induce Job's contemporaries to comply with 

 his requests in that particular 



" that mine enemy would write a book !" 



But when people buy a work on fishing, bearing the 

 name of one person, and find afterwards that it is 

 written by another, and that other the fishing-tackle 

 maker whose wares are therein recommended, and 

 who is moreover the publisher as well, they certainly 

 have a very considerable right to be dissatisfied ; and 

 such a duality as is here referred to has, unless our 

 memory plays us false, been carefully kept up by 

 " Otter," or Alfred, or Alfred and Son, whichever he 

 or they may be in their occasional letters to the 

 sporting papers. As Pat OTlaherty says : " T'other 

 is so remarkably like both, that you can't tell neither 

 from which." 



Otter's Modern Angler begins, for instance, with 

 four pages of " Angling Eequisites," and ends with six 

 of the prices which should be paid for them these 

 requisites and prices not being inserted openly as an 

 advertisement, but forming a part and parcel of the 

 book itself. After this it is needless to say that 

 " Alfred's Sensation Silver Baits," " Alfred's Pectoral 

 Baits, " " Alfred's Improved Spinning Eods," his 

 "Japanned Tin Cases," his " Celebrated 'Wellington' 

 and ' Emperor ' Trout-Flies," and a host of other rods, 

 baits, and insects which, if not quite so celebrated 



