XVIII INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



by main force,' aided by a lob-worm or roe-bait, stands in the same 

 relation to him who baskets his three or four brace with the artificial 

 « fly and single-gut artistically cast, as the gunner who pot-hunts his 

 bagful of birds, treeing his ruffed grouse, and butchering his quail in 

 their huddles on the ground, does to the crack shot, who stops his cock 

 in a blind brake, with the eye of faith and the finger of instinct, or 

 outs down his wild-fowl, skating before the wind at the rate of a mile 

 a minute, deliberately rapid and unerring. 



