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trout seldom or never rise all day, and on 

 most days, especially for dry-fly fishermen, 

 there are hours of abundant leisure when the 

 beauty of things around him may "sink down 

 into his heart and hold him like a dream." 

 And so in thinking of the charm, of fishing 

 there are thoughts of sky and running 

 water and the songs of birds and bright air 



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and long days, making in memory a typical 

 picture of what has been and may be 

 again. 



' The records of the fishing of each of us 

 will differ : some of us have not caught such 

 large fish nor so many as others, though most 

 of us have probably had certain triumphs and 

 supreme moments, which we would not have 

 exchanged for anything else that sport could 

 offer. Of all these things we may have 

 different tales to tell, but the great sense 

 of pleasure is abundant, and may be com- 

 mon to all who have leisure and the will to 

 fish.' 



Anything which I could say on the ques- 

 tion would but fall flat after such thoughtful 



