as the authors of his disorder, by tempting him to try 

 fly-fishing at aplace where it is to "be hoped no honest 

 angler ever will he found. At night his gruel is repeated, 

 "but without any "beneficial effect; for the next morning 

 he finds himself much worse, with rather an alarming 

 pain in his side and breast. The doctor now is sent 

 for, who thinks he perceives inflammation of the lungs; 

 and should his prognostic be wrong, his practice is safe; 

 for within three hours after he of the golden-headed 

 cane has touched his fee, the patient has been cupped 

 between the shoulders, had a blister placed upon his 

 chest, taken a bolus, and swallowed three draughts. 

 He has, however, received an assurance from the doc- 

 tor that he is in no danger, that is, provided he takes 

 regularly the medicine which is sent him, has the 

 blister renewed on the third day, and the cupping re- 

 peated at the same time. At the end of a fortnight the 

 doctor pronounced him convalescent; and at the end 

 of a month, declared that he might venture, by easy 

 stages, to return to London. The access of inflamma- 

 tion abated his fit of fly-fishing, and he has not since 

 been visited with another attack. Angling he now 

 abominates, together with all who follow or teach it; 

 and, should he ever be so fortunate as to obtain a seat 

 in Parliament, he intends to bring in a bill to utterly 

 abolish its practice throughout the British empire. 

 It is not a mere wish, without experience and without 

 perseverance, that will convert a person who has 

 scarcely seen a trout-stream in his life into an expert 

 fly-fisher. For the perfect enjoyment of angling, there 



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