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for a pair of dry ones, and walks home in a 

 state of exceeding great comfort; the glass 

 of e cold, without/ which he took at the well, 

 just after changing his socks, having sent the 

 blood tingling to his toe-ends." 



We think we have now sufficiently proved, 

 and yet, if we were so minded, we could bring 

 further testimony to our aid, the excellency, 

 the elegance, the high and exciting amuse- 

 ment, the harmlessness, and the humanity of 

 fly-fishing. But, as names are better than 

 mere words, and facts more persuasive than 

 the most eloquently-urged argumentation, 

 we will mention the names of a few distin- 

 guished persons who patronised and practised 

 fly-fishing. Geo. IV., the most highly- 

 cultivated minded monarch of the Brunswick 

 line that ever swayed the sceptre of these 

 realms, was a fly-fisher. His royal brother, 

 the duke of Sussex, is a fly-fisher. Nelson, 

 the hero of a hundred fights the Napoleon 

 of the ocean used to fly-fish in the Wandle, 

 near his country-seat at Merton, Surrey, and 

 so much was he attached to the amusement, 

 that after the loss of his right arm he continued 

 to practise with his left. Sir Humphrey Davy, 

 the greatest chemist of modern times, and the 

 humane inventor of the safety-lamp, which has 

 saved the lives of thousands of the most useful 



