692 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. 



CONCLUSION. 



Again I bring my task to a close, not without fear that some 

 faults have crept into this Supplement, as into the body of my first 

 edition. If so, and you should point them out to me, dear reader. 

 in a spirit of candor and kindness, I shall consider myself your 

 debtor. In recording pleasing recollections of scenes and persons I 

 have met with in my wanderings, or in reciting or compiling what 

 has been imparted to me by others, it may be that I have been for- 

 tunate enough to renew a sunny glow of boyhood in some careworn 

 heart, or fostered some germ of love for the innocent, the simple, the 

 beautiful, or the grand in nature, in a mind possessed with absorbing 

 projects of wealth or ambition ; or implanted such love in some 

 youthful breast. If so, I have my reward, and once more say 



— " Farewell ! 

 Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene 

 Which is his last, if in your memories dwell 

 A thought which once was his, if on ye swell 

 A single recollection, not in vain 

 He wore his hobnailed shoon, and scallop shell ; 

 Farewell " 



