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extracts from it, and I think every author has a 

 right to prefix what title he pleases to his hook. 



FISHEB. Do you? Then if 'Angling/ 'Angling 

 Recollections/ and BO forth, prove taking titles, we 

 will soon have Anglers in Italy, France, Holland, 

 Germany, Egypt, America, Africa, and New South 

 Wales that there are several pocket-anglers in the 

 latter colony, on public service, is well known; and 

 even ladies who keep a journal of their travels, and 

 produce twins handsome foolscap octavos every 

 twelvemonth, will he tempted to usher in the "hot- 

 pressed darlings" as the production of an "Angler;" 

 an appellation which may, in another sense, be 

 correct, as the word is Epicoene, should the fair 

 authoress he a spinster. 



SIMPSON. Have you seen Hansard's " Trout and 

 Salmon Fishing in Wales?" 



FISHEB. Why need you ask, when you know 

 that I "buy every new "book on angling that appears? 

 It is a perfect gazetteer of every lake and stream 

 in the Principality, at once so ample and so accurate 

 that I suspect the author must have been several 

 years engaged in the Ordnance Survey. I see that 

 he has resumed in his book a considerable portion 

 of the article "Angling," which he must have fur- 

 nished to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. No 

 angler should go into Wales without taking Mr. 

 Hansard's book in his pocket. The "Angler in Ire- 

 land" appears to have had excellent sport; but I 

 really do not perceive the consistency of his making 



