50 AN OLD SPORTSMAN. 



freighting a bag or creel on the estate, and you 

 should be deep in mine uncle's good graces 

 indeed before he would lend you this precious 

 concordance, which he values as highly as 

 Parson Adams did his sermons. 



These thin parchment-bound volumes ten 

 of them in all are composed of pages profusely 

 illustrated with flies. As an artificial entomologist 

 my uncle was unparalleled. A tackle-maker 

 once offered to name a wizard compound of 

 feathers and fur which never failed to do its 

 work on a salmon, after him, but my uncle was 

 modest, and declined the proposed distinc- 

 tion. 



Articles for cutting wads, manufacturing car- 

 tridges, bundles of bog whips, whistles, plover 

 calls, quail pipes, gaffs, otter spears, and other 

 litter of a similar kind are to be discovered in 

 various crannies and angles of the shooting and 

 fishing den. 



Looking, the other day, into Macaulay's 

 history, I noticed in one of the earlier chapters 

 a curious account of the number of birds and 

 wild animals that are now extinct, but which 

 in the time of Charles II. were common 



