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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters

Note C — MORE MISERIES.

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Neither did Mr. Jackson think it necessary to explain to the ladies, or even to his friend Thompson, that the very fine fish, about which he had received so many compliments, had been taken by fixing his landing-net at the mouth of one of the narrow water-courses, up which they had worked their way in search of minnows;—a secret method of ensuring good sport, well known to some few very cunning anglers, whose motto is

"Unde habeas quærit Nemo, sed oportet habere."—Juv.

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