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rod which some one kindl)- lent me, is hke a 

 weaver's beam. The high hea\}- wading trousers 

 and boots are even as the armour of the giant of 

 Gath. You have to plunge waist deep, or deeper, 

 into roaring torrents, and if the water be at all 

 ' drumly ' you have not an idea ^\■here your next 



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step ma\- fall. It may be on a hidden rock, or on 

 a round slipper)' boulder, or it may be into a deep 

 ' pot ' or hole. The inexperienced angler staggers 

 like a drunken man, is occasionally drowned, and 

 more frequently is ducked. You have to cast 

 painfull}-, with steep precipitous banks behind }-ou, 



