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that included all the well-known men of 

 action who have been attached to fly-fishing, 

 even commencing at the time when Nelson 

 angled for trout in his favourite Wandle, 

 learning to cast to and play his fish with 

 the left arm after he had lost the right. 

 As for the men of action in the worlds of in- 

 tellect and art who have been keen followers 

 of Walton, this little volume would be 

 scarcely large enough to hold their names. 

 Sir Humphry Davy the scientist, Burns the 

 poet, Fawcett the political economist, Millais 

 the painter, Charles Kingsley the novelist 

 and preacher, and Chantrey the sculptor, are 

 a few which occur to one. With Kingsley 

 angling was something more than a recrea- 

 tion ; it was a passion. Probably no man 

 has done more than he to commend the 

 pursuit of the trout to the present genera- 

 tion of authors and thinkers. The great 

 pen-picture of the chalk stream in ' Yeast,' 

 glowing with its sunset richness of colour, 

 is almost enough in itself to make a man 

 with imagination and a love of nature a 



