PEE FACE. 



THE following sketches are the results of some 

 vacations chiefly spent in rambling about the 

 Continent with a fishing-rod. Written on 

 leisure evenings on the spot, they can pretend 

 to have little literary merit, and will doubtless 

 appear trivial to the serious traveller in search 

 of information. Indeed I should scarcely have 

 thought of republishing this selection from des- 

 ultory work done in hours of idleness, had I 

 not often been asked by friends and others 

 for hints upon fishing expeditions. Nor am 

 I certain that the angler who stays at home 

 may not find something in these pages to in- 

 terest him. I have even a faint hope, judging 

 from what people tell me at dinner-parties, 



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