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TO 

 MY FISHING HOSTS AND FISHING FRIENDS 

 IN AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, AMERICA, 

 THE WEST INDIES, AND^EUROPE. 



UPON THEM, UPON ME MA V THE GODS BESTOW 

 THE BOON CRAVED BY MR. ANDREW LANG I 



" Within the streams, Pansaiiias saith. 

 That down Cocytus valley flow, 

 Girdling the grey domain of Death, 

 The spectral fishes come and go ; 

 The ghosts of trout fly to atidfro, 

 Persephone, fulfil my ivish. 

 And grant that in the shades belotv 

 My ghost ?nay land the ghosts offish I " 



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