HANDBOOK OF ANGLING. 



CHAPTER I. 



ANGLING DEFINED DIVIDED INTO THEEE SEARCHES 

 EACH BEIEFLY DESCKIBED THE STIPEEIOEITY AND 

 MEEITS OF FLY-FISHING. 



ANGLING the art of taking fish with rod, line, 

 and hook, or with line and hook only is one of 

 the oldest of out-door amusements and occupa- 

 tions in every country. At first the modes of 

 practising it were exceedingly rude, and they still 

 remain so amongst uncivilised nations. There 

 are tribes in existence that now, as heretofore, 

 fashion the human jaw-bones into fish-hooks. 

 Even unto this day angling implements, amongst 

 many of the politest people of Europe, their 

 amusements, unfortunately for themselves, being 

 chiefly in-door ones, are manufactured with im- 

 perfect roughness. The inhabitants of the Bri- 

 tish Isles alone, with their colonial descendants 



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