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|HE art of angling for salmon is a true specialty. 

 As acquired and practiced in this country it is 

 of such comparatively recent date that we can- 

 not reasonably, perhaps, look for superlative profi- 

 ciency among its devotees. Nor can it be wondered 

 at that the number of experts is so small as to com- 

 prise scarcely more than a single score, since the 

 salmon rivers of the United States were essentially 

 barren for forty years, while those of Canada were, 

 most of them, so far off and difficult of access as to 

 Tbe practically beyond reach. Indeed, the few ex- 

 perienced anglers of the early part of the century 

 actually went abroad to the rivers of Scotland for 



