THE CASTING 



'HIS is the most interesting part of the 

 sport not perhaps the most exciting, 

 nor the part one loves the best, but it 

 is the part which requires the greatest 

 skill and upon which depends your success. 



How indifferent you try to appear when some 

 one says, "Why, how well you cast ! " You always 

 reply, " Oh, no ; do you think so T w when you really 

 think you do, and all the time you are swelling 

 with pride. You are trying not to grin, but you 

 do, and your cheeks are getting red and you are 

 the happiest person in the world because you have 

 been told you cast a goo<i / 



A friend of mine was having very poor sport. 

 He was sitting in his canoe, casting a most 

 wretched line, and looking so dejected that I was 

 quite sure if it continued he would not have any 

 luck and might wish to return to camp. As he 

 was to join me at luncheon up the river, and we 

 were to have the afternoon's fishing, it would have 

 been most annoying to have him spoil the day's 



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