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OUR P. O. ALBUM OF ANGLERS. 



No. 14 (New Series). 



Mr. J. W. MARTIN. 



Mr. J. W. Martin was born In the year ; but no, 



I must not give a brother angler away. In spite of the 

 vicissitudes of a life which include such varied occupations . 

 as canal-boat horse-driver, bricklayer's labourer, and' 

 blacksmith, Mr. Martin, the sole support of a widowed 

 mother (hats ofE to him !), managed to keep alive the keen 

 love of angling which was born in him, and certainly no 

 one ever was more careful not to miss an opportunity of 

 "wetting a line." His book, "The Nottingham Style," 

 published by Sampson Low and Co., was his first 

 literary effort, under the nom de plume of " Trent 

 Otter." A good start truly, but since that time he has 

 others, '* Roach, Rudd, and Bream Fishing," which shows 

 the practical angler on every page. His last book, 

 *' Pike and Perch i'ishing," is noticed in another column, 

 but now that Mr. Martin has started as a tackle maker in 

 London, having taken the old-established business of Mrs. 

 Price, of Seymour-street, Euston-road, the indisputable 

 evidence his books give of his practical experience should 

 help him in his newer venture, in which I, for one, wish 

 him the best of success, 



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