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use the wet. The result would be 

 announced on Monday, and, whatever 

 it was, the Open- An- Fund for Children 

 would benefit by the entertaining and 

 instructive incident. 



Alack, the project was not quite accom- 

 plished. The night before the eagerly 



expected Saturday, Mr. H sent to 



our host a note saying that in accepting 

 the invitation he had forgotten an engage- 

 ment to entertain guests, "a Dry Fly 

 party," on his own stream that very day. 

 This was unfortunate. A carrying-out 

 of the arrangement might really have 

 shown the unreasonableness of debating 

 in anger the principles of a peaceful sport. 

 However, the plan did not exactly come 

 to nothing altogether. The Dry Fly and 

 the Wet Fly were tried on the same day, 



and it chanced that I met H shortly 



after his return to Town on Monday. 

 His basket on the Saturday had been one 

 of fifteen trout which weighed twelve 

 pounds. The basket on B.'s stream which 

 represented scepticism about the Dry 



