Excerpt from Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling: With Notes on Haunts, Habits and History
They be mighty partikler now-a-days, bean't they, sir? not like when I was a boy;" was the remark of the old keeper (man and boy on the river for forty years) who had been watching my vain efforts to inveigle a big trout greedily sucking in the natural fly and apparently totally regardless of the beautiful and perfect imitation I was persistently presenting to him, the only notice of which he deigned to take was an occasional turn of his head, just to satisfy himself that he was being imposed upon.
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