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everything therein recommended, and were getting no 

 sport. On pointing out to them that there was one 

 important mistake they were committing, in fishing 

 down stream instead of up, they stated that when 

 they came to a pool they fished it up that is to say, 

 they first walked down the pool and showed them- 

 selves to the trout and then commenced to fish for 

 them. 



" The trout within yon. wimplin' burn, 

 Glides swift, a silver dart : 

 And safe beneath the shady thorn, 

 Defies the angler's art." 



John Younger objects to this as incorrect, but we 

 rather think that Burns is right, and the angler 

 wrong ; as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout 

 that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is, at 

 least pi'O tern., as our pupils who first frighten the fish 

 by walking down s a poolside, and then fish up it, 

 will find to their cost. 



Others object to fishing up stream, as requiring too 

 frequent casting, being too fatiguing, and because 

 they have been accustomed to fish down, and would 

 prefer fishing in that way, even though they do not 

 catch so many trout. If any angler prefers catching 

 five pounds weight of trout, fishing down stream, to 

 ten pounds weight, fishing up, we may wonder at his 

 taste, but it is no concern of ours. 



w. c. s. 



