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volume entitled " An Amateur Angler's Days 

 in Dove Dale." I had then reached the 

 mature age of three score and a little more, 

 but I was a mere juvenile in the art of angling. 

 That little volume has long since been out of 

 print, but for me it is a pleasant coincidence 

 that my first and my last holiday book should 

 relate to DOVE DALE that is why I have 

 called the present volume, which is the seventh 

 of the series, " DOVE DALE REVISITED." 



The river Lea I have no personal ac- 

 quaintance with, beyond the one day's fishing 

 recorded herein. I am indebted mainly to that 

 very pleasant book, " Rambles by Rivers," by 

 Mr. James Thorne, published by Charles Knight 

 in 1844, for any information I have gleaned 

 about that classic stream which was the chief 

 scene of Izaak Walton's exploits. 



THE AMATEUR ANGLER. 



