CHAPTER VIII 



The Upright Angler 



He wore spectacles, which he would, when 

 his attention was directed to anything that 

 was going on in the water, carefully take 

 off, examine, wipe with his pocket-handker- 

 chief, and replace on his nose. When the 

 settled conviction took possession of him that 

 there was a feeding trout at a certain ex- 

 posed spot in the stream, he would proceed 

 to stalk it in a manner peculiar to his type. 

 First of all he stood bolt upright, and then, 

 lest that should prove ineffectual in apprising 

 the fish of his presence, he made quite a 

 point of holding his rod straight up over 

 his shoulder. Instead of creeping, in the 

 miserable manner in which some of his bank- 

 side companions were wont to do, towards 



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