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of the fish. The epicure must follow his boon 

 companion ; the bloated cheek the shortened 

 breath the gouty ancle, are more likely to 

 furnish food for fish, than fish, for food. That 

 temperance has characterised many of our best 

 artists, is evidenced, from the extreme age that 

 several have acquired ; for it cannot have been 

 from mere accident, or from their having originally 

 stronger stamina than other mortals, that so many 

 have lived to an age far exceeding the ordinary term 

 of human existence. 



Henry Jenkins, who lived to the age of 169, 

 and who boasted when giving evidence in a court 

 of justice, to a fact of one hundred and twenty 

 years date, that he could dub a fly as well as 

 any man in Yorkshire, continued angling for 

 more than a century, after the greater number of 

 those who were born at the same time, were 

 mouldering in their graves. 



Dr. Nowell was a most indefatigable angler, 

 allotting a tenth part of his time to his favorite 



