obvious should have occurred to no bottom-fisher 

 "before. It consists merely in seating the inexpressibles 

 of the sedentary angler with caoutchouc, and lining 

 them, according to size, with two, three, or four bosom 

 friends prepared rabbit-skins, so called, which can be 

 obtained at any glover or hosier's shop. 



Though SirHiimphreyDavy, in his Salmonia, speaks 

 lightly of the angling of "cockney fishermen, who fish 

 for roach and dace in the Thames," yet we strongly 

 suspect that in this school he was first initiated into 

 the mysteries of the rod and line, and that his love of 

 fly-fishing for trout and salmon was rather a late one. 

 He was President of the Royal Society, and he was 

 ambitious sero sed serio, late though earnestly of 

 ranking among the first of fly-fishers. Vain hope ! No 

 man who drives out to Denham, "in a light carriage 

 and pair of horses," to enjoy trout-fishing in apreserved 

 stream ; or who is carried into a boat on a Highland- 

 man's back, to fish for salmon on Loch Maree, need 

 aspire to such a distinction. Of fly-fishing, he may talk, 

 in season and out of season, 



' About it, Goddess, and about it," 



titute wit 

 ice to angl 



and the excess of drinking a pint of wine 



savor much of the precautions 

 prudent bottom-fisher. Though 



