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spending throb in the cardiac region of the angler's 

 anatomy, followed immediately by the singing of the 

 reel and by tightest tension upon lancewood or split 

 bamboo. Of constant occurrence too, even when the 

 fly is taken beneath the surface of the water, is the 

 splash that tells of the daring and voracity and lusty 

 warlike qualities of North America's favorite char, 

 and that often reveals at the outset of the battle both 

 the form and the size of the flshernaan's gallant foe- 

 man. Whatever he may do under changed condi- 

 tions, transferred to foreign waters, at home he is a 

 valiant foe, a stand-up fighter, as it were, who takes 

 no surface lure by stealth, not even from below, but 

 flings himself boldly into the contest, generally ex- 

 poses himself to full view quite early in the fight, and 

 never yields an inch of ground, or water, or line, 

 until compelled by sheer exhaustion, nor is finally 

 conquered until he has exhausted the thousand and 

 one devices of his plucky persistence, bold, brave bat- 

 tling, and finny finesse. This is fontiyialis as I know 

 him and esteem him, and as thousands of Canadian 

 and American anglers know and esteem him, too ! I 

 have taken him under different circumstances, it is 

 true; when flies would not entice him to the warm 

 surface of the water and he had to be sought with 

 bait in deep, cool holes. Upon other occasions I have 

 sought him, like many another, when he was not to be 

 found, though known to be lurking in the very vicinity. 



"I fished all day and caught — a cold, 

 And just at night I had a bite — cold ham and such. 

 'Twas not for naught I fishing went, 

 I hooked at least an appetite." 



