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the manner of angling here with us, by reason of that exceeding 

 clearness, being something different from the method commonly 

 used in others, which, by being not near so bright, admit of 

 stronger tackle, and allow a nearer approach to the stream ; I 

 may, peradventure, give you some instructions that may be of 

 use even in your own rivers, and shall bring you acquainted with 

 more flies, and show you how to make them, and with what dub- 

 bing too, than he has taken notice of in his Complete Angler.* 



ViAT. I beseech you, Sir, do : and if you will lend me your 

 steel, I will light a pipe the while ; for that is commonly my 

 breakfast in a morning, too.f 



* Part i., chap. 5. 



t It is not wise to venture out in the morning with an empty stomach, 

 which renders the system peculiarly liable to any malaria that may be 

 prevalent ; besides, an empty stomach makes a light brain, and the angler 

 needs all the coolness of judgment he can command. It is far better to 

 rise even earlier than our father Walton, that, having fortified ourselves 

 against the cravings of appetite which the angler's pursuits give him, for 

 (as the Berners' Treatyse says) " the swete ayre of the swete savoure of 

 the meede flowres makyth us hungry," we may not be forced to turn from 

 the side of the stream until the golden opportunities of the morning are 

 all well used. — jlm. Ed. 



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