THE 



FLY-FISHER'S TEXT BOOK. 



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THE AUTHOR DISCOURSETH OX THE DELIOHTS OF FLY-FISHIXG SETTING 



FORTH ITS SUPERIORITY ABOVE ALL OTHER SPORTS. 



WHAT angler will acknowledge other pleasures 



equal to his own ? Yet is it not the sport alone 



which draws us with magnetic influence to fix us 



spell-bound by the river's side. No we have yet 



a brighter source of true enjoyment in the pure 



air and tranquil country scenes, which wait upon 



our wanderings. One while, amid the wildest 



sources of the mountain stream anon, beside the 



lovely lowland river. Now tempting its placid 



depths of pool, its freshening runs, its eddying, 



gurgling, glistening rockholes ; or pausing to 



admire the majestic plunge of some adjacent 



waterfall. What is so beneficial to a body worn 



with the many cares of study, or close application 



to a worldly calling, as the free relaxation inwhich 



