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result was not different, and after one or two trials 

 with, no better success, not a few have condemned 

 fishing up stream as erroneous and ourselves as 

 impostors ; though we imagine the fault lies with 

 themselves. We have met anglers fishing down 

 stream and this is no supposititious case, but one 

 which we have seen over and over again with a 

 copy of this volume in their pockets, who com- 

 plained that they had got everything herein recom- 

 mended and were getting no sport. On pointing out 

 to them that there was one important mistake they 

 were committing, in fishing down stream instead of 

 up, they stated that when they came to a pool they 

 fished it up that is to say, they first walked down 

 the pool and showed themselves to the trout, and 

 then commenced to fish for them. 



* ' The trout within yon wimplin' burn, 



Glides swift, a silver dart ; 

 And safe beneath the shady thorn, 

 Defies the angler's art." 



John Younger objects to this as incorrect, but 

 we rather think that Burns is right, and the angler 

 wrong ; as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout 

 that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is, 

 at least pro tern., as our pupils who first frighten the 

 fish by walking down a pool-side, and then fish up 

 it, will find to their cost. 



Others object to fishing up stream, as requiring 

 too frequent casting, being too fatiguing, and because 

 they have been accustomed to fish down, and would 



