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so unsportsmanlike as to provoke the condemna- 

 tion of all right-minded men. But I should be 

 lacking in my duty to the reader if I forebore to 

 mention the patent recently taken out by a 

 French inventor for angling by means of a tele- 

 phone — a system which would not be tolerated 



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in any sporting country, and only requires to be 

 described to earn universal reprobation. 



Certain fish, it is well known, emit faint sounds 

 when alarmed or distressed: tench continue to 

 croak long after capture, and the herring when 

 engaged in mutual intercourse with his fellows 

 makes a noise like a bereaved mouse. Upon 

 this well-kno\^Ti fact the Frenchman bases his 

 invention, and has contrived an apparatus con- 



