"It has so happened that all the public services that I have 

 rendered in the world, in my day and generation, have been con- 

 nected with the general government. I think I ought to make 

 an exception. I was ten days a member of the Massachusetts 

 Legislature, and I turned my thoughts to the search of some 

 good object in which I could be useful in that position ; and after 

 much reflection I introduced a bill which, with the consent of 

 both houses of the Legislature, passed into a law, and is now a 

 law of the State, which enacts that no man in the State shall 

 catch trout in any manner than in the old way, with an ordinary 

 hook and line." — Daniel Webster. 



" If you do not know a river it is always most desirable to have 

 someone with you who does." — Francis Francis. 



49. The Teal. 

 52. No. 68. 

 55. Widow. 

 58. March Brown. 

 61. King of the 

 Water. 



50. Reuben Wood. 51. Red Spinner. 



53. Hawthorne. 

 56. Grasshopper. 

 59. Shoemaker. 

 62. Gen. Hooker. 



54. Dorset. 

 57. Stebbins. 

 60. Orange Black. 

 63. Gray Drake. 



"The angler atte the leest, hath his holsom walke, and mery 

 at his ease, a swete ayre of the swete savoure of the mede floures, 

 that makyth him hungry ; he hereth the melodyous armony of 

 fowles ; he seeth the yonge swannes, heerons, duckes, cotes, and 

 many other fowles, wyth. theyr brodes ; whyche me semyth better 

 than alle the noyse of houndys, the blastes of hornys, and the 

 scrye of foulis, that hunters, fawkeners, and fowlers can make. 

 And if the angler take fysshe ; surely, thenne, is there noo man 

 merier than he is in his spyrytc." — Dame Juliana Berners. 



" Skill, and trained skill at that, does the good work, and the 

 angler's score is just in proportion to his knowledge of 'how to 

 doit.'"— Wm. C. Harris. 



