CHAPTER IX 



THE next book to be dealt with is, T/ie Young 

 Sportsman's Instructor, In Angling, Fowling, Hawk- 

 ing, Ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, 

 Hares, and Dogs, and how to Cure them, by G. M. 

 Sold at the Gold Ring in Little Brittain, price 6d. 

 In a former chapter I have already stated my 

 reasons for not according to this book a date of 

 publication earlier than that of The Anglers Sure 

 Guide. 



The following extracts, taken from a copy of the 

 first edition in the Bodleian Library, are written in a 

 far more practical style than that of any of the 

 instructions contained in Markham's books : 



Let your Line be in thickness and length according 

 as the Rivers or Ponds you fish in require. For 

 Fishing in the Thames let your Line be of a great 

 length, usually 5 yards long ; for the New River a 

 Line of 2 yards is sufficient ; in Hackney River as 

 long a Line it requires as the Thames, and also as 

 long a Fishing-cane. 



In none of Markham's angling treatises is such 



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