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BY PERMISSION TO THE AUTHOR OF 



"LORNA DOONE." 



DEAR MR. BLACKMORE, 



My best thanks are due to you, not only for 

 permitting me to associate your name of world -wide 

 fame with that of a mere u mbra, a lover of the thymy 

 grayling, an amateur, as well with the pen as with 

 the angle, but also for allowing me to print the 

 graceful tribute to the pleasure of angling, which 

 you have so kindly written for me. My only regret is 

 that my little book is not more worthy of your 

 acceptance. 



Yours very truly, 



THE AMATEUR ANGLER. 



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