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bitten no less than six times in various parts of 

 his person. Medical aid was soon forthcoming, 

 but in spite of the efforts of three well-known 

 specialists in hydrophobia, and a visit to the 

 Pasteur Institute in Paris, the patient's injuries 

 proved fatal and he passed away, on his eighty- 

 first birthday, universally mourned and re- 

 gretted. 



7. 



In all forms of fresh- water fishing concealment 

 is the first requisite of sport. Salmon and trout 

 are especially shy, and if they catch sight of an 

 individual slinking along the river bank with a 

 rod over his shoulder, the wiliest attempts to 

 capture them will prove abortive. It is a very 

 good plan in such circumstances to disguise 

 oneself in the skin of a defunct cow (or horse), 

 and trot along the margin of the stream, waving 

 one's tail in the air and mooing (or neighing, as 

 the case may be). But the difficulty of hand- 

 ling a trout-rod effectively while running on all 

 fours may easily be imagined, and on the whole 

 perhaps the practice of getting oneself up to look 

 like a willow, and weeping on the river bank, is 

 to be preferred to the most life-like bovine 

 imitation. 



It is not my intention to dwell upon those 

 modern methods of scientific fishing which are 



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