Lang, Andrew, Burn-Murdoch, W. G. (Illus.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 157
124 ANGLING SKETCHES weaver’s beam. The high heavy 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 … step may fall. It may be on a hidden rock, or on a round slippery boulder, or it may be into a deep ‘pot’ or hole. The inexperienced angler staggers like a drunken man, is occasionally drowned, and more frequently is ducked. You have to cast painfully, with steep precipitous banks behind you,
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