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"Perhaps there is no pleasure to be enjoyed 

 at a more easy rate than that of angling, one 

 more conducive to health, or which composes 

 the mind to that quiet and serenity which can 

 only be appreciated by those who have experi- 

 enced the happiness they bring with them. 

 An old angler has justly remarked, that he 

 who lives Sibi et Deo, leads the most happy 

 life; and when we reflect that most of our 

 earthly hopes are attended with anxiety that 

 ambition, and riches, and power, generally 

 have some cares or evils to counterbalance 

 them, the contented angler may pursue his 

 course, enjoying his beloved recreation, with a 

 mind unruffled, like the stream he wanders 

 along." 



The following and the last extract in praise 

 of fly-fishing is from the Anglers Souvenir, 

 a book written with much spirit, but, per- 

 haps, in a style rather too barbed, to please 

 generally the unoffensive race of gentle crafts- 

 men : " Fly-fishing is most assuredly that 

 branch of angling which is most exciting, and 

 which requires the greatest skill, with the 

 greatest personal exertion, to insure success. 

 Fly-fishing, in a preserved water, where a gen- 

 tleman, perchance in ball-room dress, alights 

 from his carriage to take an hour or two's easy 

 amusement, is no more like fly-fishing in a 



