PREFACE 



TO 



SECOND EDITION. 



THESE Lectures were written for the instruction 

 as well as for the amusement of the Fishermen 

 of Brighton, a fine class of men, but whose 

 moral conduct had previously been but little 

 attended to. In fact, their occupation had been 

 on the wide seas, and when driven on shore, 

 too much of their time and most of their earn- 

 ings had been spent in beer-shops and ale- 

 houses. 



When the Author first began to read these 

 Lectures to them, he was repeatedly told that 

 his time and trouble would be thrown away. 

 So far from this having been the case, he can 

 confidently appeal to many of the inhabitants of 

 Brighton, whether there is in that town a more 

 sober and better-conducted class than the fisher- 



