PREFACE 



TO THIS AMERICAN EDITION. 



/TV HIS fresh, quaint, charming old book 

 should have been reprinted before, it 

 seems to me. 



A brief extract from it in my copy of 

 Walton's Angler, made me desire to place 

 it on- a certain shelf in my library, where, 

 by the side of "The Contemplative Man's 

 Recreation," repose Prime's " I Go a 

 Fishing," Wade's " Halcyon Days," Sir 

 Humphrey Davy's "Salmonia," and "The 

 Angler and His Friends," Norris' "Amer- 

 ican Angler," the New York State Report 



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