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was no longer shocked at the rent in Clinker's 

 small-clothes when she perceived how fair a 

 skin he showed beneath. 



The angler's coat and trowsers should be 

 of cloth, not too thick and heavy, for if they 

 be the sooner wet they will be the sooner dry. 

 Water-proof velveteens, fustians, and mole- 

 skins rat-catchers' costume ought never 

 to be worn by the angler ; for should he have 

 to swim a mile or two on any occasion 

 when overtaken by the tide on Duddon sands, 

 for instance, or across Bassenthwaite or Ulls- 

 water, to save going six miles about he 

 would find them a serious weight when once 

 thoroughly saturated with water; and should 

 he have a stone of fish in his creel, it would 

 be safest not to make the attempt. An 

 elderly gentleman of the Kitchiner school, 

 now sitting at my elbow, who knows the 

 " Peptic Precepts" better than he does his 

 catechism which he has long since for- 

 gotten, except a phrase or two which he 

 sometimes quotes as St Paul, in religious 



