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Show LEARNING THE GENTLE ART. Ambassador Choate Makes a Discovery Discov-ery While Angling. Joseph Hodges Choate. Amoilcan ambassador to Croat Iliitaln, Is trying to master tho gentle art ot angling under tho direction of an Knglish "trouter." Ho writes to a friend: "I am getting on famously, my nverat,o weekily cntch being about ono bite ' Not long ago Henr White, secretary ot tho embassy, went down to tho country place whero Choato Is stopping stop-ping and found him busy whipping a stream. Not far nwav a decaying tlsh In tho tall gratis was attracting tho vermin In tho air Tho ambassador noticed Mr White's glance and slight sniff. "White " said he, "did yon ever land a tiouf" 'Just n few Mr Am bassador ' 'I'm woudcilng if ou drew the moral I hove drawn Did i notlco" pointing lowuid Hie water and then to tlio decaying i.uh-stance--"that It Is much harder to cntch llsh with lll"k tlihn llles with flsh' |