ANGLING SKETCHES 



THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER 



, HESE papers do not boast 

 of great sport. They are 

 truthful, not Hke the tales 

 some fishers tell. 

 They should ap- 

 peal to many sym- 

 pathies. There is 

 no false modesty in the confidence with which I 

 ssteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men 

 arc born duffers ; others, unlike persons of genius, 

 become so by an infinite capacity for not taking 



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