CHAP. XVII.J THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 2CX) 



of them in that nick out of the water, before you have any oc- 

 casion to use them. These, my honest Scholar, are some ob- 

 servations told to you as they now come suddenly into my 

 memory, of which you may make some use : but for the prac- 

 tical part, it is that that makes an Angler : it is diligence, and 

 observation, and practice, and an ambition to be the bes* m 

 the art, that must do it. I will tell you, Scholar, I once heard 

 one say, " I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor 

 him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do : I 

 envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish 

 than I do." And such a man is like to prove an Angler; 

 and this noble emulation I wish to you and all young Anglcw, 



