DAYS ON THE NEPIGON. 



inherited a seemingly exhaustless store of 

 energy and unmatched resourcefulness, and 

 while not familiar with the classics and higher 

 mathematics, understands his business from 

 the ground up. 



He fights with a ferocity that asks and ex- 

 pects no quarter. He will come again and 

 again, and unexpectedly, and one must lower 

 the point of his rod most obsequiously and 

 at the precise moment to avoid disaster. Very 

 theatrical, full of bold expedients and un- 

 daunted courage, he can be depended upon to 

 offer stubborn battle. But the trout's first 

 jump is usually his last. He prefers fighting 

 under cover. When he does come to the sur- 

 face and fondly gazes at you, it is generally 

 a confession of defeat. 



When the acrobatic bass approaches with 

 every spine bristling, it signifies fight, and he 

 dies battling face to the foe. Not that the trout 

 tamely submits at the first prick of the steel; 

 far from it. He is a fighter, though not a 

 scientific one, having no appreciation of the 



finer and more artistic points of the game. 



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