"Though the love of angling is generally acquired in 

 youth, yet it sometimes attacks persons of more matured age ; 

 conveys a maggot into their head, and then they dream of 

 gentiles ; tickles their nose with a Mayfly, and straight they 

 talk of palmers, red and black, dun cuts, granams, coachman, 

 professors, gnats, moths, March browns and peacock hackles ; 

 shows them a salmon in a fishmonger^ shop, and then they 

 think of nothing but angling ; and 



Winna let the puir bodies 

 Gang about their business ! " 



From " The Angler's Souvenir." Edited by G. Chris- 

 topher Davies. 



