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him out and arrange. Will you ? " The 

 Editor vowed he would rejoice to do so. 

 " Good," said B. " I put my stream at 

 your disposal for the match, which might 

 be this coming Saturday if you're all free, 



and H is free ; and you'll all be my 



guests at the old inn. Let me know by 



telegraph to-morrow if H can go. 



Then I'U get Senior of The Field to be 

 umpire." 



Soon afterwards, his misgivings about 

 the angling policy of his journal much 

 modified, the Editor took his leave in 

 high spirits ; and next morning there was 



notification that Mr. H had been 



found willing. A leaded leading-note in 



The D C stated that, serious 



objection having been taken to the article 



questioning Lord G 's doctrines about 



Fly Fishing, it had been arranged that 

 the objector and the writer of the article 

 should put the question to a test by 

 angling on the same stream, a chalk- 

 stream, on the same day. The one 

 would use the dry fly ; the other would 



