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particular places. If the wind is blowing cheer- 

 fully, all that your boatman needs to do, is to keep 

 his craft about the distance wanted (see that he 

 makes no splash as does Kirkpatrick nor dashes 

 high in air the billowy waters, if so 



" You'd better have a dog that bays the moon, 

 Than such a rowman,") 



and you will drift along with sufficient celerity to 

 afford you fresh casting ground every other minute. 

 Try the vicinity of islands, promontories, and pro- 

 jecting points skirt along sandy bays persevere 

 near wood-fringed rocky ranges cast within a yard 

 or two of large mystical Henge-stone looking stones 

 be sedulous but careful on the outskirts of weeds, 

 reeds, and water lilies, in short, fish every loch 

 you meet with all over, and as well as you are able, 

 except the central regions, which, though not un- 

 peopled, are assuredly less productive than the 

 shallower shores. But above all especially to- 

 wards evening, or, when 



Waters on a starry night 

 Are beautiful and fair, 



steal silently with muffled oar within a few yards 

 of the trinkling mouth of every tiny rill which 

 dances from the side of barren mountain, or creeps 

 insidiously from shadowy wood, for there your 

 pounders one lib., two lib., three lib., lie unseen, 

 waving their pliant fins, and swallowing each inno- 

 cent immergent thing which " enters the bosom of 

 the quiet lake," and there you may raise and 



