DAYS ON THE NEPIGON. 



consideration to methods save that they be 

 honest; and he does not pronounce the modest 

 hard-working worm beneath contempt. He 

 still retains a wholesome respect for that 

 humble friend of his boyhood days, even 

 though he spit upon it. 



When the fly is impracticable, there need 

 be no hesitancy in resorting to other lawful 

 expedients. The sterling high-minded angler 

 will not lose caste by so doing, and he owes as 

 much to his prospective victim; for one can 

 heartily agree with Nessmuk, "when a plump 

 two-pound trout refuses a tinseled, feathered 

 fraud, I am not the man to withhold from 

 him something more edible"; and will ac- 

 cord him ample credit for understanding the 

 cravings of his own stomach. 



