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ANGLIKG SKETCHES 



rod which some one kindly lent me, is like a 

 weaver's beam. The high heav}- wading trousers 

 and boots are even as the armour of the giant of 

 Gath. You have to plunge waist deep, or deeper, 

 into roaring torrents, and if the water be at all 

 ' drumly ' )-ou have not an idea where your next 





YAIR BOAT-POOL 



Step may fall. It may be on a hidden rock, or on 

 a round slippery boulder, or it ma}" be into a deep 

 ' pot ' or hole. The inexperienced angler staggers 

 like a drunken man, is occasionally drowned, and 

 more frequentlj- is ducked. You have to cast 

 painfully, with steep precipitous banks behind you, 



