CONCLUSION. 



OUR matter is at an end. We possess no other 

 relics of our loved fraternity and what, gentle 

 angler, are these before thee, save an unassorted, 

 imperfect medley? We have not troubled ourselves 

 to trick them out for favour. They are better, per- 

 haps, as they are, even with all their likeness to 

 those lettered follies which the day gives birth to. 



Will the angling fraternity at C ever re- 

 vive? Alas! the conclusion that our hearts come 

 to is, that it never will. We have reason to believe 

 that its dissolution has been a final one! There are 

 no signs or chances of returning animation among 

 us. The electric fires of sympathy are all gone out. 

 Even the tenement where our festive meetings were 



