Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 320
e muskrats swimming along with theirnoses above the surface, and now and then a minkmay dart into a heap of drift-wood. The beauti-ful wood-duck and the queer green herons hauntour bass brooks, and so do the kingfisher and thesmall white heron. When you are slipping stealth- WORK AND P L A V F O R… … One day, some years ago, I was casting in a nar-row, weedy stream in the South, and was trying tomake my fly fall upon a small pool near the op-posite bank, when it went a little too far and set- tled in a tuft of grass. No sooner had it touchedthan something grabbed it savagely, and, when Ireeled…
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