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cryftal ; whereas not only do the fifh fee you where 

 you ftand, but your fhadow fcares them away in 

 double quick time. 



Sable Gentleman. I never thought of that, but 

 I believe you are right. 



Clericus. Your friend too below I fee is in the 

 water, and more than that, has a green coat and 

 white troufers on, no more likely colours to catch 

 the ftiarp eyes of the trout. If the fky be over- 

 caft, you can take liberties with the fifh, but now 

 it is a totally different thing. Let me recommend 

 you under prefent circumftances to fifh "fine and 

 far off" and always avoid, if poffible, having the 

 fun at your back, or your whole fhadow muft fall 

 upon the water. 



In fpite of my advice I felt pretty fure when I 

 left the fable and green gentlemen, that the colour 

 of the latter's coat was no bad index of their know- 

 ledge of the gentle art. To think of approaching 

 within ken of a trout in fuch a dazzling and con- 

 fpicuous garb ! 



In nine cafes out of ten when a light bafket tells 

 too true a tale of a day's fly-fifhing, I believe it is 

 owing to a want of caution in keeping as much as 

 poffible out of fight. There is no colour fo little 



