TO CAPT. JAMES FISHER, 



OF THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S REGIMENT OF NATIVE 



INFANTRY, CALCUTTA. 



"Dear Brother Jim/' 



As my earliest angling reminis- 

 cences recall the happy days of our boyhood and 

 youth, when we were companions in many an angling 

 excursion, and when we fished the rippling hum 

 "from morn to dewy eve" now wading middle-deep 

 in the stream, and now walking dry-shod on the bank 

 I know no person to whom I can more appropriate- 

 ly dedicate "The Angler's Souvenir," than yourself. 



The "Dedication" copy which your friend 

 Major Armstrong, who expects to sail on the 1st of 

 September, has kindly promised to take charge of 

 you will please to keep as a small token of brotherly 

 affection. The other copy, sent at the same time- 

 one side of the binding of which is ornamented with 



