CHAPTER IV. 



ROACH AND DACE FISHING GENERAL INSTRUCTION SONG 



THE YOUNG ANGLER. 



MANY hundreds of anglers, especially young 

 ones, know no more of the piscatory art than 

 that which is exercised in catching a few small 

 roach and dace, two or three times during the 

 summer when they have a holiday. And we 

 well recollect the time, when our knowledge 

 extended no further, and yet the great pleasure 

 we enjoyed while thus engaged ; when, free 

 from every care, in schoolboy trim, with our 

 rod and basket, we brushed along, all alone, 

 to our favourite little swim, anticipating not 

 only the pleasure of catching the fish, but that 

 we should enjoy when we showed them to 

 those who are now sleeping in the silent tomb. 

 Yes, those were happy days, but they are 

 gone for ever ! It is to such in particular 

 that we would throw out a few hints, to 



