PREFACE. 



THE very flattering reception accorded to the BOOK OF 

 THE BLACK BASS, and the favorable notices and encomiums 

 it has received from naturalists, and anglers, and the press, 

 and its success as a literary enterprise (for all of which I 

 am profoundly grateful), has induced and encouraged me to 

 bring its subject-matter down to date. 



For obvious reasons, I have thought it best, beyond the 

 correction of a few clerical and typographical errors, to let 

 the original edition remain intact, and to issue the addi- 

 tional matter in a separate volume in the form of a supple- 

 ment or sequel the supplemental chapters agreeing in 

 number and caption with those in the original edition. 



The plan pursued in the original book, of illustrating the 

 tools and tackle, by using cuts that have been especially pre- 

 pared for manufacturers, to illustrate their specialities in 

 that line, has been so much commended by anglers gener- 

 ally, and has proved so desirable a feature, that it has been 

 adhered to in the supplement. 



For the new portrait of myself, my publishers are alone 

 responsible. It is an exact reproduction of an excellent 

 photograph. 



JAMES A. HENSHALL. 



CINCINNATI, DECEMBER, 1888. 



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