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everything therein recommended, and were getting no 
sport. On pointing out to them that there was one 
important mistake they were committing, in fishing 
down stream instead of up, they stated that when 
they came to a pool they fished it up—that is to say, 
they first walked down the pool and showed them- 
selves to the trout and then commenced to fish for 
them. 
“ The trout within yon wimplin’ burn, 
Glides swift, a silver dart : 
And safe beneath the shady thorn, 
Defies the angler’s art.” 
John Younger objects to this as incorrect, but we 
rather think that Burns is right, and the angler 
wrong ; as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout 
that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is, at 
least pro tem., as our pupils who first frighten the fish 
by walking down a poolside, and then fish up it, 
will find to their cost. 
Others object to fishing up stream, as requiring too 
frequent casting, being too fatiguing, and because 
they have been accustomed to fish down, and would 
prefer fishing in that way, even though they do not 
catch so many trout. If any angler prefers catching 
five: pounds weight of trout, fishing down stream, to 
ten pounds weight, fishing up, we may wonder at his 
taste, but it is no concern of ours. 
W.C.S. 
