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first grayling." I have slain hundreds of good fish since, 

 and remember more or less the circumstances of each 

 capture, but not one is so indelibly photographed on my 

 mind as this. 



The best writers to be consulted on the grayling are 

 Cotton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Eonalds, and Francis ; and as 

 I notice that angling authors of repute refer constantly to 

 Mr. H. Wheatley's Bod and Line, there can be no doubt 

 but that his book is worth the attention of those who 

 want to know " all about grayling," though I confess I 

 have never seen it. 



