" Mr. Webster's sport of angling has gjven him many opportu- 

 nities for composition, his famous address on Bunker Hill having 

 been mostly planned out on Marshpee Brook ; and it is said that 

 the following exclamation was first heard by a couple of huge 

 trout immediately on their being transferred to his fishing-basket, 

 as it subsequently was heard at Bunker Hill by many thousands 

 of his fellow-citizens : ' Venerable men ! you have come down to 

 us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened 

 out your lives that you might behold this joyous day.'" Lan- 

 man's Life of Webster. 



" Now, I love fishing dearly. There is no sport like it for me. 

 but there is a vast deal in fishing besides catching fish." H. H. 

 Thompson. 



13. The Triumph. 14. Alexandra. 



15. Seth Green. 16. Jungle Cock. 



17. Fitz-Maurice. 18. Caddis. 



19. Davis. 



"When fish are basking during the mid-day hours in the hot 

 summer months, they are not always to be drawn to the surface. 

 But the combination more suitable for this method is the dressing 

 known as the ' Alexandra Fly.' " David Foster. 



"The exertion of crossing the Atlantic for fly-fishing will be 

 amply repaid the sportsman by the quantity and weight of the 

 fish he will capture ; for there the fish are not troubled with the 

 fastidiousness of appetite which in Great Britain causes it always 

 to be a source of doubt whether the water is in proper order, the 

 wind in the east, or thunder overhead, either of which, or all 

 combined, too frequently cause the most industrious to return, 

 after a long and laborious day, with an empty basket." 

 Gfilmore. 



