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also Grinsell's master, Cavell, and Dane, who was 

 Cavell's master — four generations of Ironmongers. 

 Not one of them has told us what his real occupation 

 in life was. All that we really know is that Izaak 

 Walton was Ax Angler. 



With reference to the fragments of letters recently 

 discovered by Mr. Dewar, he has kindly sent me 

 the following memorandum — 



'• The two fragments of Walton's letters are very small 

 ones— one is dated January, 1678, and is addressed to 

 a Lady ; the other is addressed to a Mr. John Benmoure. 

 Neither of these tiny scraps could by any stretch of 

 imagination be called ' important,' but anything of 

 Walton's has, I suppose, some interest. I do not know 

 Benmoure as a friend of Walton's, and I do not know a 

 date January 19, 1678, as one of any published letters of 

 Walton's, but I think in all probability the fragments are 

 genuine — so far as they go." 



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