Vlll PREFACE. 



rejoices in doing fealty and honour to the 

 great and glorious modern Sire of every true 

 born British Angler.* 



To a friend in need and in deed, C. S. 

 Hall, Esq., his sincere acknowledgment of 

 deep obligation for timely and efficient sup- 

 port, must also be specially expressed ; and 

 from an experienced sportsman, his judicious 

 reviewer, in the New Sporting Magazine, he 

 cannot (however irregular the proceeding 

 may be) withhold his hearty thanks. 



He also avails himself of the opportunity 

 to publicly apologize for not having ade- 

 quately met some of the earlier demands for 



* Vide Blackwood's Edin. Mag-. June, 1838 ; New Monthly 

 Mag. Aug. 1836; New Sporting Mag. Sept. and Oct. 1836; 

 Examiner, Sept. 26th, 1836; Atlas, Aug. 13th, 1836; Lite- 

 rary Gazette, July 15th 1836 ; Staffordshire Advertiser, Aug. 

 13th and 20th, 1836, and June 9th, 1838. 



The view to interests near at home, which is (avowedly) 

 mixed up with a higher motive in citing these valuable autho- 

 rities, will perhaps be deemed excusable, seeing that a fry of 

 " odd little Jish" (which the consummate eloquence of the 

 great Christopher himself could never induce to devour a single 

 Green Dragon, either alive, sauced, or painted), must never- 

 theless be supplied with something to rise at every day, and 

 trained, at least, to distinguish the Little-dark-spinner from 

 the Great-dark-drone. 



