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CHAPTER XIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



"DEOTHEE of the gentle art, we bid you fare- 

 ** well ! We have done our best to give 

 you the benefit of our experience in the peace- 

 ful pursuit of loch - fishing ; and if we have 

 said too much or too little, pray excuse us, and 

 in your goodness of heart reprove us for our 

 verbosity, and tell us what is awanting. The 

 spirit on our part has been very willing ; but 

 the memory may have been defective when it 

 should have been most active, and quite pos- 

 sibly our love for the art may have somewhere 

 or another led us into discursiveness where we 

 should have been brief. We are all human, 

 and he is a poor mortal who thinks he cannot 

 err. Again we say farewell ! not for long, 

 however, we hope. Who knows where we may 



