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writers on angling whom he considers as the 

 authors of his disorder, by tempting him to try 

 fly-fishing at a place where it is to be hoped no 

 honest angler ever will be found. At night his 

 gruel is repeated, but without any beneficial effect ; 

 for the next morning he finds himself much worse, 

 with rather an alarming pain in his side and breast. 

 The doctor now is sent for, who thinks he perceives 

 inflammation of the lungs ; and should his prognos- 

 tic be wrong, his practice is safe ; for within three 

 hours after he of the golden-headed cane has 

 touched his fee, the patient has been cupped be- 

 tween the shoulders, had a blister placed upon his 

 chest, taken a bolus, and swallowed three draughts. 

 He has, however, received an assurance from the 

 doctor that he is in no danger, that is, provided he 

 takes regularly the medicine which is sent him, has 

 the blister renewed on the third day, and the cup- 

 ping repeated at the same time. At the end of a 

 fortni g nt the doctor pronounced him convalescent ; 

 and at the end of a month, declared that he might 

 venture, by easy stages, to return to London. Tho 

 access of inflammation abated his fit of fly-fishing, 

 and he has not since been visited with another 

 attack. Angling he now abominates, together with 

 all who follow or teach it ; and, should he ever be 

 so fortunate as to obtain a seat in Parliament, he 

 intends to bring in a bill to utterly abolish its 

 practice throughout the British empire. It is not 

 a mere wish, without experience and without perse- 



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