PURE FLY-FISHING FOR SALMON 



PART THE FIRST. 



CHAPTEK I. 



IN LAUD OF FLY-FISHING FOR SAL3ION. — ON SALMON FLY- 

 RODS, WINCHES, LINES, AND ON THEIR 3IAKE, MATERIAL, 

 AND MANUFACTURE. 



I HAYE many times \yritteii about angling apolo- 

 getically. I have frequently written in its de- 

 fence, and very often in praise of it. I was 

 chiefly induced to do so, because the art was de- 

 fined as the occuj)ation of a ninny by one great 

 writer— Dr. Samuel Johnson : and as the amuse- 

 ment of a cruel disposition by another — the most 

 popular of modern poets — Lord Byron. A host 

 of imbecile babblers and iofnorant witlins^s took 

 up the cry, and ran, as they thought, this creature 

 of their contempt to death. They should have 

 recollected, and the doing so might have cooled 



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