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much toddy overnight. In the morning the eye is less 

 keen, the hand less steady, the body is unfitted for pro- 

 longed exertion, the angling-animus is weakened, and 

 the enjoyment of the sport greatly diminished. Inn- 

 keepers are often heard to complain that now-a-days 

 the coffee-pot rather than the bottle is in requisition 

 amongst their guests, " and if they tak ae tumbler 

 afore gaun to their beds, they seldom tak ony mair ! " 

 — from which we infer that temperance notions have 

 found their way even amongst anglers, and also that 

 a new class has begun to go for recreation to unfre- 

 quented river-sides. The old roystering habits are fast 

 changing ; and (while, however, we only recommend 

 anglers carefully to keep within the limits of their 

 capacity — for what is more grateful than a steaming 

 tumbler as you are looking over your pocket-book after 

 a hard day's toil ?) — ^we rejoice at the reformation. 



We have as yet said nothing as to the proper pabu- 

 lum with which an angler ought to store his pockets ; 

 and we apprehend that that must in great measure be 

 according to what can be had. Sandwiches are the 

 never-failing rations out-of-doors ; we have seen cold 

 fowl and buffalo tongue exhibited with great effect by 

 the water-side ; we have fished and walked eighteen 

 hours a-day on bread-and-eheese. Of course, portable- 

 ness is the chief object to be kept in view. The meat- 

 pies sold at railway refreshment rooms are very con- 

 venient for anglers starting in the morning from a 

 place where they ai-e to be had. In the way of liquids, 

 we know of nothing comparable to whisky-and-milk 

 in equal proiX)rtions, and if a soda-water bottle-full 

 should be judged insufficient^ the angler can have his 



