PREFACE. 



As I have always felt a great interest in many 

 of the scenes and occurrences which are to be met 

 with in country life, I have endeavoured to de- 

 scribe and embody them with my hints for Anglers. 

 What has interested me, will, I trust, interest some 

 of my readers. 



Such as my work is, it is now submitted to the 

 public, and as my former Volumes have been so 

 favourably received, I trust that these pages will 

 meet with as kind a reception. The following 

 amplification of the motto of my title-page, parodied 

 from Juvenal, will best describe the nature of my 

 work. 



The peaceful Angler's joys by pool and stream, 

 His sports, his toils, form our discursive theme ; 

 Nature he loves her works we humbly scan 

 And mystic laws beneficent to man ; 

 Then turn again to rod and line and hook, 

 Or with a tale fill up our little book. 



