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of their composure ; and if you shall ever like to do so, then 

 note, that your stick must be a little hazel or willow, cleft, 

 or have a nick at one end of it ; by which means you may 

 with ease take many of them in that nick out of the water, 

 before you have any occasion to use them. These, my 

 honest scholar, are some observations told to you as they 

 now come suddenly into my memory, of which you may 

 make some use ; but for the practical part, it is that that 

 makes an angler: it is diligence, and observation, and 

 practice, and an ambition to be the best in the art, that 

 must do it. I will tell you, scholar, I once heard one say, 

 " I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him 

 that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do ; I 

 envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish 

 than I do." And such a man is like to prove an angler ; 

 and this noble emulation I wish to you and all young 

 anglers. 



