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of those I chose for myself; but that 

 is a small consideration. Mr. Bradley 

 declares, in regard to his four mysterious 

 adepts, that " the secret is not in any of 

 their cases revealed by the flies. One of 

 them, who has represented England in 

 Lochleven competitions, told me that he 

 thought he had some exceptional faculty 

 or instinct for divining the touch of a fish 

 under water." 



That is an interesting suggestion. 

 Certainly there are wonders to be 

 witnessed in the sport. A few are 

 brought to mind by what my corre- 

 spondent says. The first is connected 

 with char, which, like trout, are of the 

 salmonkind ; and it is a case in point. 

 There was a series of seven or eight very 

 sultry evenings on a Perthshire loch. 

 At the beginning of this period the trout 

 were not rising well, and by the end of 

 it they were not rising at all ; but, for the 

 first time in the season, the char began to 

 rise on the earliest of the sultry evenings, 

 and on the last of them an angler in 



