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whip out a fish, before he is aware of his danger : 
whereas, should he have been once roused to a 
sense of it, by being brought face to face with a 
light-coloured one, and particularly if an unsuc- 
cessful attempt have been made to land him with 
it, he often turns unpleasantly fractious, and re- 
quires a good deal of persuasion, before he can be 
again prevailed on to come within reach. And 
it must not be forgotten, that those struggles of 
his with a short line are infinitely more dangerous 
than any that he can make with a long one. 
