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from whom I received many useful lessons in the 

 a Gentle Art," namely, my brother, Sergeant J. 

 Armstrong, of Ford. 



Often have I had the pleasure of witnessing 

 these gentlemen's brilliant illustrations of angling, 

 and listened with intense delight to the exposition 

 of their varied ideas regarding the habits of the 

 fish, as also the attractive virtue of this and that 

 lure; which, combined with practical experience, 

 and the written authority of other true and de- 

 voted piscatorial disciples of the world-renowned 

 Isaac Walton, has warranted me in venturing to 

 give a few brief and useful instructions upon the 

 subject, in a condensed form. I have not at- 

 tempted to give the various perplexing methods 

 of capturing fish, supposed to constitute the 

 finished angler. They are simply a combination 

 of practice and oral information, interspersed with 

 select extracts from Stewart's Practical Angler 

 and Stoddart's Angler's Companion, which autho- 

 rities are at the service and within the reach of 

 every one having leisure and inclination to seek 

 out and arrange, a task more difficult than I at 

 lirst anticipated, but when complete, form a sum- 

 mary of correct and useful information, which, I 

 surmise, will attract and interest such of my 

 readers as are lovers of the delightful sport of 

 Trout Fishing. 



