xxiv Contents. 



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Sporting Instinct Alive Diversity of Baits 

 Recommended by Walton His Chapter on 

 Trout-Fishing The Celebrated Fordidge 

 Trout Walton and His Editors What 

 would He think of Some of our Modern 

 Automatic Angling Appliances ? His Re- 

 ligion His Reference to Hampshire 

 Streams Notes on other Chapters of His 

 Book A Tip for Dry-Fly Anglers Did 

 Walton Keep a Horse ?' His Directions for 

 Bream, Barbel, and other Fishing Fishing- 

 Tackle Makers Mentioned by Walton His 

 Chapter on Fish-Ponds A Drink like 

 Nectar f . 163 



CHAPTER XL 



Some Notes on Charles Cotton's Practical Direc- 

 tions in Trout and Grayling- Fishing Fish 

 Fine and Far Off Cotton the First Ex- 

 ponent of Clear- Water Fishing for Trout 

 and Grayling Yorkshire Fly-RodsPike 

 Pool Creeper- Fishing First Described by 

 Cotton, also " Swimming the Worm " for 

 Grayling 195 



CHAPTER XII. 



Some Editions of The Complcat Angler Sub- 

 sequent to the Fifth An Interval of over 

 Seventy Years Moses Browne's Reprints, 

 1750, 1759, and 1772 John Hawkins's Edi- 

 tions, 1760 to 1784 The Bagster Edition, 

 1808 Gosden's Edition, 1822 John 

 Major's Editions One "Higgs" has a 

 Copy Bound in Wood which he Cut from 

 Cotton's Fishing-House Some Notes on 

 Major's Editions How Major Courted 

 Immortality Pickering's 32mo, His Fine 

 Edition of 1836, the Result of Seven Years' 

 Labour Sir Harris Nicolas Walton's Best 



