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THE A^GLERS SOUVENIR. 



FISHER. Do you 1 Then if " Angling," " Angling 

 Recollections," and so forth, prove taking titles, we 

 shall soon have Anglers in Italy, France, Holland, 

 Germany, Egypt, America, Africa, and New South 

 Wales ; that there are several pocket-anglers in the 

 latter colony, on public service, is well known ; and 

 even ladies who keep a journal of their travels, and 

 produce twins handsome foolscap octavos every 

 twelvemonth, will be tempted to usher in the "hot- 

 pressed darlings" as the production of an "Angler," 

 an appellation which may, in another sense, bo 

 correct, as the word is Epicoene, should the fair 

 authoress be a spinster. 



SIMPSON. Have you seen Hansard's " Trout and 

 Salmon Fishing in Wales" ? 



FISHER. Why need you ask, when you know 

 that I buy every new book on angling that appears ? 

 It is a perfect gazetteer of every lake and stream in 

 the Principality, at once so ample and so accurate 

 that I suspect the author must have been several 

 years engaged in the Ordnance Survey. I see that 

 he has resumed in his book a considerable portion 

 of the article "Angling," which he must have fur- 

 nished to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. "N r o 

 angler should go into Wales without taking Mr. 

 Hansard's book in his pocket. The "Angler in 

 Ireland" appears to have had excellent sport ; but I 

 really do not perceive the consistency of his making 

 so many half-apologies for saying so much about 

 angling, when, from the title of his book, we are 



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