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follow his example, or indeed to fish very well after 

 they got to the water-side. There is nothing that the 

 angler ought more to avoid than too much toddy over- 

 night. In the morning the eye is less keen, the hand 

 less steady, the body is unfitted for prolonged 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 unfrequented 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 

 foul and buffalo tongue exhibited with great effect by 

 the water-side ; we have fished and walked eighteen 

 hours a-day on bread-and-cheese. 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 are to be had. In the way of liquids, 



