\O my son R. B. M. (Piscator Major), and to my 

 good friend G. Y. (The Professor), expert anglers 

 both, my frequent companions on my Angling 

 Excursions, I dedicate this little book. 

 The thoughtful care of the former in all that contributes 

 to my welfare, and especially in providing me -with the 

 needful implements of destruction when I go a-fishing, and 

 the iinselfish anxiety with which the latter, by good advice 

 and ready help, sought to save me from many a scrape into 

 which my juvenile rashness and inexperience must otherwise 

 have plunged me, surely deserve and demand this slight 

 recognition of their goodness, and I seize with pleasure the 

 opportunity which is here afforded me of expressing to them 

 my love, my gratitude, and mv good wishes. 



LONDON, 

 August 1900. 



THE AMATEUR ANGLER. 



M8-16185 



