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ANGLING. 



is fond of floating, for be sure your trout can never 

 make the lower circuit with your drag in his mouth, 

 while yourself, an inhabitant of upper air, are hold- 

 ing on by the drop, and absurdly shouting " On, 

 Stanley, on," at the very moment that you are 

 acting the part of an obstructive, by preventing 

 the Member for Finsbury from visiting his Con- 

 stituents. 



If you have no boat, you had better fish from 

 the shore. Some people (Professor Wilson, for ex- 

 ample) prefer doing so, whether they have a boat 

 or not ; and if you don't desire to keep your feet 

 particularly dry (in which case you had better also 

 keep your room for a few days), you must wade 

 sometimes to a considerable actual depth, if you are 

 a tall bold man, or to a proportional apparent depth, 

 if you are a short shy one. A young bachelor may, 

 of course, wade deeper than a married man, of the 

 same dimensions, who has a wife and family. 



In fishing from shore, try to get the wind behind 

 you, and at least if you have that object in view, 

 don't fish on the lee-side of the loch. When you 

 have waded in as far as you feel inclined, and sup- 

 posing the wind to blow either directly or diago- 

 nally from the shore, say into your right ear when 

 your face is lake-ward, then take a few casts before 

 you, and rather to the right hand, bringing your 

 flies across and somewhat down the wind, then 

 stretch out with a more lengthened throw directly 

 forward, then sweep away, cast after cast, to the 

 left, taking always two or three throws in every 

 radius in a straight line with each other, beginning 



