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a thousand before I find it. Still, it is 

 true there are compensations. Valued old 

 friends, given up for years as lost or lent 

 (synonymous words when books are con- 

 cerned), suddenly meet the eye. Senior's 

 Travel and Trout at the Antipodes, which 

 I had often looked for in vain, is in the 

 very spot where HenshalPs Book of the 

 Black Bass used to be. At any rate I have, 

 as our American friends say, " located " one 

 book. Senior is where Henshall was. I 

 hope Henshall is not where Senior was 

 behind and out of sight or he won't re- 

 appear until the next earthquake. 



I had, during many years, gradually 

 gathered together various editions of 

 Walton's Angler, of his Lives, works by 

 friends of Walton, . or contemporary or 

 subsequent writers who refer to him. 

 These were of all sorts and sizes, but all 

 together; now they are scattered to the 

 four corners of my library. 



But if I have not found that reprint of 

 Walton with the error in it, I have found 

 a very pretty reprint by Mr. Elliot Stock, 

 published in 1877, also now out of print ; 

 but it has the correction. 



In the first copies of the Angler struck 

 off for Richard Harriot there are some 

 verses near the end, which are thus referred 

 to by Walton. 



