PKEFACE. 



DEAR BEADER, 



I fancy 1 hear you say " What ! another 

 work on Angling ! " Yes, but although there 

 are already not a few, yet some treat of such 

 very ancient descriptions of tackle, that they are 

 too obsolete for these go-ahead days ; others, 

 again, are more modern, but their parents being 

 wedded to some particular method of Angling, 

 immediately, like Dickens' immortal " Alderman 

 Cute " seek to " put down " everything else, re- 

 commending their special modus operandi as the 

 one grand universal panacea for the general 

 "want," viz: a sure method of taking fish 

 with a rod and line. One Angler will gravely 

 recommend you not to use anything but a worm; 

 another sagely remarks that the gentle is the 

 "correct thing ;" whilst a third, probably a 

 vegetarian concludes to use nothing but a 

 green pea or a bit of paste. These three saga- 



