Fishing
                            Laurie Simpson

An  angler  who  shall  be nameless was plagued by a prolonged dry spell,
when  no  fish  would come to his lure, fly, or bait.  Not even to Barney
Steele's "Wooly Bugger"!

He  had a friend named Bill, a dedicated and successful fisherman, and so
he went to Bill, and asked him for help.  The successful one replied that
he  had contacted a Neo-Witch, Deodorah of the Aridh Clan, who had worked
out  spells  on  her  computer, cast them for him, and now he caught fish
whenever he wished.

Our anonymous angler sent an email to Deodorah, and she asked the name of
his  dog, which always accompanied him in the boat.  She wrote and cast a
spell  for  trolling;  if  he trolled in the direction the dog looked, he
would catch fish.

For  two days he trolled, without even a twitch on the line.  Angrily, he
wrote to the witch, "Your spell is useless!!'

Deodorah  programmed  and  cast  a new spell to empower his boat, so that
fish  would  be  irresistibly attracted to any form of bait used from the
boat.

Three days later, "Not a nibble!!!"

So  Deodorah  wrote  an  all-powerful  spell,  in WitchBasic, with exotic
ingredients  from  quantum science, limnology, and astrology, and cast it
on all the waters which the angler had fished, did fish, and might fish!

And, "NO FISH!!#!"

And Deodorah consulted her black cat, for she was wise in the traditional
ways,  as  well  as modern.  And the cat gave strong indications that she
should consult a Programming Wizard.

And  Deodorah  called up a consultation with the Wizard on World Wide Web
for Witches.  And the Wizard accessed Deo's computer, and read the spells
she  had written, and studied her style, and cast the runes and boiled an
antique newt, for he was also an old-fashioned Wizard.

And then he sent her an urgent e-mail,

              "Have you switched on your Spell-checker?"??

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