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tionaries 'obsolete'? It would seem so; yet there will 

 be some use for them, among old-fashioned folk, as 

 long as the word 'angling* holds its place." Willis 

 Boyd Allen. 



Large-Trout Angling. Frank Brigg, of London, 

 England, fishing in New River, caught an eighteen- 

 pound trout, the heaviest specimen of trout ever 

 taken in a London water. 



Speculation in Angling. "I often wonder if the 

 basis of fishing is not founded upon the element of 

 chance, and whether fishing does not fascinate because 

 it is a species of gambling. To a degree it is a hazard. 

 You take your best tackle, select your choicest bait, 

 and you do more, for you pray to the goddess of 

 success.'' "Ancient Mariner/' 



Economy in Angling. " Don't take more fish than 

 you can use; if you do, you take that which belongs 

 to someone else." "Tops'l." 



An Angling Classic. "Angling is the only sport 

 that boasts the honor of having given a classic [Izaak 

 Walton's The Compleat Angler, 1653] to literature." 

 Henry van Dyke. 



How to Approach a Trout. " . . . sense of hearing 

 in all species of fish is a matter of concussion on the 

 surface of the water. Sit motionless in a boat, and you 

 may sing, "I Won't Go Home 'Til Morning, " or any 

 other gala song, to the extreme high limit of your 

 voices, and the trout or any other fish will remain un- 

 disturbed, but, scratch your toe upon the bottom of 



