LETTER No. XIII. [1887. 



JUBILEE FLY-FISHING. 



" Some better pleased with private sport, 

 Use tennis ; some a mistress court ; 



But these delights I neither wish, 



Nor envy, while I freely fish." 



IZAAK WALTON. 



HEN fools go a-shooting, wise men 

 go a-fishing ; " so says Charles 

 Kingsley, or, rather, so says " Old 

 Marks." Just now, while I am writing, a 

 good deal of Jubilee powder is being blazed 

 away, and to-morrow the grand day there 

 will be a good deal more. I hope I am as 

 loyal as most people, but circumstances have 

 prevented my joining in any Jubilee festivi- 

 ties. I am not, on that account, going to 

 assert that shooting off blank cartridges is 

 not as wise a way of proving one's loyalty as 

 going a-fishing. As a rule I should agree 

 with " Old Marks" to the extent that angling 



