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...particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that's all wrong.'. . ." When a trout bites, " 'lower the tip of the pole a minute. . . . Now lift the tip up again easy . . . then . . . strike quick...
...Lord Stevenson, famed controller o' rubber, (apologies tae TIME here) who made Herbert Hoover sae jumpy two or three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs sae badly jumle't that he made statements showin' that the British, through Stevenson's rubber control, were forcin' us American motorists (I rin a Packard masel') tae pay in increased price for oor tires some three or fowre hunner million dollars a year mair than the price o' a' the rubber that was imported into...