THE ANGLKK AND HUNTSMAN 25 



Piscator No, I thank you; but I pray, do us a cour- 

 tesy that shall stand you and your daughter in nothing, 

 and yet we will think ourselves still something in your debt; 

 it is but to sing us a song that was sung by your daughter 

 when I last passed over this meadow, about eight or nine 

 days since. 



Milk Woman What song was it, I pray? Was it 

 4 ' Come Shepherds, deck your heads," or "As at noon Dul- 

 cina rested," or "Phillida flouts me," or " Chevy Chace." 

 or "Johnny Armstrong," or "Troy Town"? 



Piscator No, it is none of those; it is a song that your 

 daughter sang the first part, and you sang the answer to 

 it. 



Milk Woman Oh, I know it now. I learned the first 

 part in my golden age, when I was about the age of my pool 

 daughter; and the latter part, which indeed fits me best 

 now, but two or three years ago, when the cares of the 

 world began to take hold of me ; but you shall, God willing, 

 hear them both, and sung as well as we can, for we both 

 love anglers. 



From even these brief excerpts of Walton's writings 

 it is easily seen what a nobility of character and what a 

 gentle, loving spirit he possessed. We surmise that if he 

 was half as artful with his angling rod as he was with his 

 pencil, he deserves even greater fame as an angler than he 

 is renowned to have been. 



FISHING REEL LORE: 



More than three-quarters of a century back, viz: in the 

 year 1839, the makers of the "Milam" fishing reel recog- 

 nized the field awaiting to be occupied by a reel in which 

 material and construction should be so combined as to pro- 



