ODDS AND ENDS 



By The Right Hon. SYDNEY BUXTON, M.P. 



In view of the pressure of prolonged and absorbing work and 

 duties, which hardly tend to stimulate the descriptive mood, 

 I ought, perhaps, to have declined the editor's flattering and 

 insidious request that I should contribute some notes to this 

 volume. 



What follows makes, therefore, no pretence to propound 

 any new doctrine, or to traverse any old one. The notes 

 are merely by way of casual reminiscence and reflection 

 touching a sport that I love, and which it is good to recall 

 in imagination. 



This book deals with Fish and Fishing — fly-fishing especi- 

 ally — and therefore, with all due respect to Shooting (to which 

 I owe many of my pleasures of life), that sport must take a 

 back seat. 



It may seem somewhat superfluous to compare, to the 

 detriment of one, two good things, two excellent enjoyments 

 — fishing and shooting. 



But, nevertheless, let us compare them. 



I.— Fishing v. Shooting 



In what does the difference consist ? What, looked at from 

 the point of view of enjoyment, of sport, of recreation, of rest, 



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