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should be done without delay. Your landing- 

 net should also be suspended in the open air, 

 that it may get dry as speedily as possible. A 

 landing-net will last double the time if atten- 

 tion is given to it in this way. Take out all 

 used casting - lines from your book, and lay 

 them on the mantelpiece till morning: this 

 will insure the feathers being freed from mois- 

 ture. And in the case of expensive flies, this is 

 a matter of consideration, both on the point of 

 expense as well as your possible inability to 

 replace them where you may happen to be 

 sojourning for the time. If you mean to make 

 up a new cast or casts for the morrow, place 

 the casting-lines in a little water in your basin. 

 They will be in excellent order next morning 

 for manipulation. Also soak in like manner 

 the gut on which the flies which you mean to 

 use are dressed. True, you may not be sure 

 what flies you will put on till you see what 

 sort of a day it may prove to be, but there is 

 no harm done if you soak the gut (but only 

 the gut) of as many flies as will give you a 

 good choice. 



We should have said nearer the beginning 

 of this chapter to look well after your water- 



