THE 



BORDER ANGLER. 



CHAPTEE I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



keen Angler who has nothing to do but 

 | to pursue his sport, will probably, during the 

 ^ trouting season, erect his' tabernacle by some 

 river-side, where the murmuring stream will at night 

 " invite him to rest," and in the morning to recreation, 

 and where he will be in a position to take advantage 

 of those fleeting moods favourable to the exercise of 

 his art which air and water sometimes assume. As, 

 however, there is a large number of keen anglers who 

 cannot make it convenient thus to ruralize whose 

 ways of life are amidst the stir of cities, and who 

 can snatch only in the intervals of business an occa- 

 sional day or two for their amusement the next thing 

 to be desired is the enjoyment of such facilities for 

 conveyance to the water as shall neutralize, as far as 

 possible, the drawbacks to which the distance of their 



