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CONCLUSION. 



OUR matter is at an end. We possess no other relics 

 of our loved fraternity and what, gentle angler, are 

 these before thee, save an unassorted, imperfect medley ? 

 We have not troubled ourselves to trick them out for 

 favour. They are better, perhaps, as they are, even 

 with all their likeness to those lettered follies which 

 the day gives birth to. 



Will the angling fraternity at C ever revive ? 



Alas ! the conclusion that our hearts come to is, that 

 it never will. We have reason to believe that its dis- 

 solution has been a final one ! There are no signs or 

 chances of returning animation among us. The 

 electric fires of sympathy are all gone out. Even 



