ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



OUR venerable fraternity is at length dissolved ! 'Tis 

 strange, yet true. What fault had nature to find 

 with us, save that we had lived our time ? There 

 was no unhealthiness or defection in our members 

 no pinings or frailties. We were, in heart, purpose, 

 and intent, compact as ever. Alas ! how freakish is 

 fortune, leading us into treasons after . happiness, and 

 upsetting them with her finger-touch ! The Angling 

 Club at C h is dissolved ! All its kind-humoured 

 contentions and merry assemblings, the schemes con- 

 certed for its longevity, ay, and the friendships it was 

 wont to form, are out of being ! One might naturally 

 expect a reason for this breaking-up of interests. If 



