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your line take place, strike lightly. It may be a trout 

 and it may not ; but in any case strike. If it prove to be 

 a trout, it will probably not take you long to get it 

 out ; in fact, you will as likely as not pull it straight on 

 to the bank, and very possibly it will not weigh more 

 than an eighth of a pound, if as much. But, neverthe- 

 less, you will at the moment be as pleased at its cap- 

 ture as if it were a fish of five times the si/e, caught 

 in more southern waters. 



FIG. 6. Double-hooked Stewart tackle. 



And thus you go on fishing, always up-stream, till 

 you arrive at the inner recesses of the moor, where 

 the scenery grows wilder, where you feel yourself in 

 still closer communion with Nature, and more under 

 the spell of her beneficent influences. ]>y the time 

 you begin to retrace your steps and fish in a casual 

 and satisfied fashion down-stream towards home for 

 have you not caught between four and five do/en 



