PREFATORY NOTE 



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' Born beneath the Fish's sign. 



Every healthj boy, every right- 

 minded man, and every uncaged 

 woman feels, at one time or another, 

 and maybe at all times, the impulse 

 to go a-fishing. That is what fishes 

 are for : to call us away from 

 newspapers and counting 

 rooms, school books and par- 

 lors and five-o'clock teas, 

 out into the open of exist- 

 ence, where life is real and 

 banks are green, skies are 

 blue, and the birds sing in 

 the branches over the water. 

 It does not matter much 

 what fishes are in the streams. 

 Still less is it essential that 

 we should succeed in catch- 

 ing them. The main thing 



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