VI PREFACE 



unwisely, to put together the accompanying 

 Memories. 



It may truly be said that my readers hitherto 

 have not been limited to the angling class ; they 

 know too much already to accept me as an 

 instructor in their art, and indeed I have 

 always regarded ignorance of the true science 

 of angling as my chief merit. The contents of 

 the present volume are sufficiently miscellaneous 

 to support that statement, and to confirm the im- 

 pression which I have always, and very success- 

 fully tried to convey, that I am but a mere 



AMATEUR ANGLER. 



June 1911. 



