PREFACE. xiii. 



into the present work to take the place of an " Addenda/' 

 which was merely a reproduction of what the author 

 had stated before respecting the various baits suitable 

 for each month ; in doing so, if an apology be owing to 

 my readers, I will plead as an excuse that the first- 

 named article is descriptive of a day's sport upon one of 

 the Yorkshire streams with which I have had to deal in 

 the present work ; and that the latter was written in 

 affectionate remembrance of one of the dearest friends 

 and companions that I ever had in this world, and but 

 for whose influence I might possibly never have had 

 occasion to reiterate the expression made use of by 

 Mr. Francis, in one of his delightful angling essays 

 " Thank God for making me a fisherman." 



FKANCIS M. WALBKAN. 



Pool, Wharfedale, 



April, 1883. 



