32 LONDON ANGLER'S BOOK, 



Dace in mill streams are mostly met with near the 

 top part of the mill head : they are a brisker fish than 

 the Roach, and having a larger mouth, you may use 

 a No. 9, hook ; they are very good eating. 



SONG. YOUNG BEGINNERS. 



(TuNE.) t( Now let's away to the Wedding." 



1. 



Richard Roach, Daniel Dace, Barney Bream 



Had purchased, of tackle a store. 



And amongst them was poor Mike Minnow, 



Whose story I've told you hefore ; 



Boh Bleak too was one -of the party, 



A 'prentice h'd not long been bound, 



I believe he's a distant relation 



Of that Billy Bleak that was drowned. 



Some people do sneer at us Anglers, 

 And call us all this, that, and t'other, 

 But they cannot say we are wranglers, 

 But live, as should brother and brother. 



2. 



It was settled, next week they would go out, 

 Each prayed that time fast might run on, 

 To leave toil and sorrow behind them, 

 In smoaky and dirty London, 



