the trophies of war, surmounted with a Bengal 

 tiger rampant, and the other ornamented with an- 

 gling apparatus, surmounted with a Tweed salmon 

 hauriant I wish you to present, in my name, to 

 the regimental library. Great indeed would he our 

 reward I now write for" Self and Co." the joint con- 

 tributors to the volume should "The Angler's Sou- 

 venir" afford an hour's entertainment, by recalling 

 thoughts of former days, to those who have aban- 

 doned the long rod and ozier creel, for the "spurtle 

 blade and dog-skin wallet," and who, instead of 

 walking by the pleasant streams, and through the 

 woods and green meadows of their native land, now 

 march by the banks of the Ganges and the Jumna, 

 or traverse the jungles and arid plains of Hindostan. 

 Should " The Angler's Souvenir" prove acceptable to 

 those who are far distant from "the green islands 

 of their sires," I would fain hope that it may not 

 be wholly uninteresting to the brotherhood of an- 

 glers at home, for whose delectation and instruction 

 it is more especially intended. 



Should you wish to know, my dear James, what 

 portion of the volume was written by your loving 

 brother, I must honestly confess that throughout 

 the greater part of it, I have been little more than 



