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Plutarch wherein it is mentioned shows it 

 to have been altogether a pitiful exhibition. 

 Think of an angler employing divers to 

 hook his fish on this was indeed imperial 

 angling ! I think I see the " world's great 

 master/' when in the pride of his heart he 

 had pulled up a prime large fish, and found 

 it to be a dried haddock, which Cleopatra, 

 who had found out the secret of his success, 

 had bribed the divers to put on. Notwith- 

 standing George the Fourth's splendid book 

 of flies, which a few years ago was exhibited 

 at the maker's, to the great admiration of 

 cockney anglers, the fishing excursions on 

 Virginia water were little calculated to afford 

 amusement to a genuine disciple of the rod 

 and line at least in the way of angling. 

 It was yet pleasant sometimes to see a pike 

 landed to the sound of soft music, while the 

 lord in waiting, having his hands covered 

 with a pair of French gloves, worked himself 

 into a state of gentle perspiration in trying 

 to get the hook out of the pike's mouth, 



