INTRODUCTION 



a larger lake for the togue, or lake trout, 

 who will not venture his burly but comely 

 form to respond to the angler's more sports- 

 manlike surface lure. And so we follow our 

 brother angler and behold the mighty leap 

 of the tarpon; or the more graceful curve of 

 the salmon as he bounds from the silent and 

 swift water; and then to the tumbling 

 streams of the Golden West to tempt the 

 crimson-banded rainbow trout, or the salmon- 

 like steelhead with seductive and attractive 

 bits of silk and feathers, called by courtesy, 

 a fly. 



And so, in these stray leaves from the 

 "Humble Angler's" book of memory, we 

 follow him through sunshine and storm, by 

 day and night, by tumbling brooks and wide 

 waters, by surging streams and sequestered 

 pools in quest of his quarry. And we share 

 with him the hopeful anticipation and con- 

 fident expectation for the fruition of exu- 

 berant success; or sympathize with him in 

 failure of the fish to respond to his cast, or 

 to break away, or in other vicissitudes that 

 go to make up that delightful uncertainty 

 that is the chief incentive and pleasure of 

 the angler's life. 



And then at the "Close of Day," with a 



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