ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



OUR venerable fraternity is at length dissolved! 

 ' Tis strange, yet true. What fault had nature to 

 find with us, save that we had lived our time? 

 There was no unhealthiness or defection in our 

 members no pinings or frailties. We were, in 

 heart, purpose, and intent, compact as ever. Alas! 

 how freakish is fortune, leading us into treasons 

 after happiness, and upsetting them with her finger- 

 touch! The Angling Club at C h is dis- 

 solved! All its kind-humoured contentions and 

 merry assemblings, the schemes concerted for its 

 longevity, ay, and the friendships it was wont to 

 form, are out of being! One might naturally ex- 

 pect a reason for this breaking-up of interests. If 



