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your sayd game as to moche at one tyme.' Also, 

 * Ye shall besye yourselfe to nouryssh the game 

 in all that ye inaye.' 



" The entire introduction to Dame Juliana 

 Berners's treatise should be printed and hung 

 in every club and school in the country, as it is 

 good advice, constituting the standard in use 

 by gentlemen anglers everywhere of to-day. 



" In the British Museum there is a copy of 

 the first edition of Leonard Mascall's Book of 

 Fishing (1590), the father of fish culture, who 

 took most of his fishing data from Dame Berners 

 and the French. A fine edition in black letter 

 of the Book of St. Allan's was printed in 1596, 

 and in 1600 John Taverner published a book on 

 fish. Michael Angelo was an angler, and many 

 artists of our own time were devoted to the rod, 

 as Sir John Williams, Mr. John Pettie, R.A., 

 and W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., and in America, 

 Walter Brackett. 



Another book on that delightful old mantel 

 was an edition of John Dennys's fine book, 

 The Secrets of Angling, taken down and handed 

 around with care and delight. It was writ- 

 ten in 1613 and published under the nom- 

 de-plume of " J. D." and for two hundred 

 years or more the public did not know who J. D. 

 was, and Belve tells us that "Perhaps there does 

 not exist in the circle of English literature a 

 rarer volume." John Dennys wrote a century 



