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first authority of his time on the wary Salmo ferox, and its 

 capture in the larger Scotch lochs. The third author 

 associated with 1840 is a poor shoemaker of Kelso, of the 

 name of John Younger, who had a great local reputation 

 as an angler and fly-dresser. He gave his experiences to 

 the world in his River Angling for Salmon and Trout, 

 which a fly-fisherman will do well to read if he comes 

 across it. Younger, too, is a bit of a poet, as several of his 

 compositions quoted in Mr. Henderson's My Life as an 

 A ngler testify. 



Mr. Edward Chitty, Barrister-at-Law, published his very 

 instructive Illustrated Fly-fisher s Text-book in 1841 ; and in 

 the same year Blacker, the well-known fishing-tackle maker 

 of Dean Street, Soho, who died a few years ago, his Art of 

 Angling, wherein are illustrated with plates the various 

 stages of the artificial fly before it is finished. In 1842, 

 the articles, which during many years previously had been 

 written by Professor John Wilson for Blackwood' s Magazine, 

 were published under the title of Tlie Recreations of Chris- 

 topher North, a name which will be associated with angling 

 as long as the sport is pursued. Professor Wilson was a 

 prince among anglers and among men, and though he com- 

 bined the characters of artist, poet, philosopher, and philan- 

 thropist, yet he still stands out as a perfect individuality. 

 Let every angler possess his Christopher North, if only as 

 a specimen of angling literature of the most happy, spirited, 

 and withal polished style, though abounding with what 

 might almost be called the "slang" of angling. Just a 

 quotation as a specimen, in which the Professor describes 

 killing trout in Loch Awe when they were " well on " : — 



" Lie on your oars, for we know the water. The bottom of 

 this shallow bay — for 'tis nowhere ten feet — is in places sludgy, 

 and in places firm almost as green-sward, for we have waded it of 



