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Fly doctrine contained twenty-five trout 

 weighing thirty-three pounds. One of 

 them, taken on a Greenwell's Glory, was 

 five pounds and a half. The two baskets 

 could not be regarded as affording grounds 

 for a satisfactory judgment on the question 



that had been under discussion. H 's 



stream may not have been so good as the 

 other, and the atmospherical conditions 

 may not have been identical. Still, a 

 basket of thirty -three pounds was suffi- 

 cient to persuade H. W. M. that The 



D C had been justified in its 



protest against Lord G 's unneces- 

 sarily earnest derision of the ancient 

 method. 



On a subsequent occasion, when again 

 the wet -fly basket was not despicable, 

 Mr. Senior remarked, " Yes : I admit it 

 is good, even surprising ; but I am quite 

 confident there are waters where this 

 could not be done." Where are they, 

 I wonder ? Once another scientific fisher- 

 man, Mr. A L , took me to 



the Test in order to see whether there 



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