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fondness inseparable from attachment to 

 the homely race by whom it is still 

 used. 



My hints on Fly-fishing contain, I fear, 

 little that is not already known to the 

 practical Angler, and may only serve as a 

 guide to those who may be tempted to 

 pursue one of the most delightful of field- 

 sports, which, of old time, the Ecclesias- 

 tical Canons did not deny even to the 

 Clergy. 



Some of our countrymen may, perhaps, 

 derive half an hour's amusement from those 

 portions of the dialogue in which I have 

 attempted to defend from the charge of 

 utter vulgarity, the language of the rustic 

 population of the Southern and Western 

 parts of England. That among an unlet- 

 tered race there should be much in their 

 speech which may be denominated vulgar, 

 is unquestionably true ; but there are also 

 a great number of words and phrases which 



