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for children, the most authoritative men 

 of science have conclusively shown that 

 the peculiar training which comes through 

 sports or games is helpful in the proper 

 devel opment of intellectual capacity. That 

 men intellectually eminent must soon ac- 

 quire exceptional efficiency in any skilled 

 craft they take to, especially if it be 

 angling, the subtlest of all sports, is not a 

 strained corollary. It is an inference from 

 the ascertained nature of things. If Mr. 

 Bradley will pass all his angling friends 

 and acquaintances under review, he will 

 come upon an illuminating fact. He will 

 find that among the mysteriously success- 

 ful ones, although a few may be vagabonds, 

 there is not a single person who lacks in- 

 tellectual superiority to ordinary men. 

 One of my own mysteriously successful 

 angling friends, the deftest of them all, 

 is not grammatical, and cannot even spell 

 with correctness ; but an amazing skill, 

 similar to that with which he casts his flies 

 or guides his sunken lures, runs through 

 all his more serious activities, which are 



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