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CHAPTER XXI 



A Purist amongst Purists 



Many all-round anglers, and even some 

 enthusiastic fly-fishermen, used to think the 

 man was really too much of the purist, that 

 he quite overdid the thing. At the bare 

 mention of a minnow, or artificial spinning 

 bait of any kind, he turned up his eyes in 

 pious horror ; and to resort to the worm under 

 any conditions — even if the custom of the 



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