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hand is " set," 



ness, and never -with ease. And then to see a gen- 

 tleman who has arrived at years of discretion 

 taking lessons in managing the rod and throwing 

 gracefully a long line, is about as good as a peep 

 at Mr. Deputy Hopkins, who never learned to 

 dance till after he was married, practising a qua- 

 drille, for the Mansion-House "ball, with his coat 

 and wig off. Most of our practical "books on angling 

 are written, not for the " instruction and improve- 

 ment of youth," but for the edification of elderly 

 gentlemen, who are presumed never to have had a 

 rod in their hands before; and the dry-nurse of a 

 teacher "begins at the beginning" accordingly. I think 

 it would be worth any professor's while to open an 

 Angling Academy at Peerless Pool, City Boad, when 

 it is no longer used for bathing, to teach grown gen- 

 tlemen the use of the long rod* applying a birch 

 one, solito loco, when needful, to dull or refractory 

 pupils, with examples of the art of whipping with- 

 out cracking off the fly. How did you succeed in 

 your trolling to-day, Tweddell? 



TWEDDELL. Very badly. I only caught one 

 jack after a two hours' trial; and when I thought to 

 change nay gorge hook for a snap, I was nearly 

 another hour before I could fix my bait as the 

 bock directed, and then the best part of the day 

 was gone. I do not wonder at my not catching a 



