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TO THE 



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OP THE 



BLAIRGOWRIE ANGLING CLUB. 



GENTLEMEN, 



Being privileged with a full share of your 

 confidence individually, and having been honoured 

 with the same distinction by you in your associated 

 capacity, my being allowed to dedicate this humble 

 treatise to your honourable Club, proves beyond a 

 doubt not only the deep sincerity of all your past 

 favours, but also a desire on your part (expressed in 

 a way most congenial to my heart and honourable to 

 my mind) that these favours should be perpetuated ; 

 and although separated from you, it is the wish of 

 your honourable Society not only to acknowledge 

 me as a Brother, but so to extend the favours of the 

 brotherhood, as to patronize the efforts of my mind, 

 and stamp with your approbation my little work. 

 Suffice it to say, that this last act of your kindness 

 recals some of the happiest scenes of my life, and 

 goes far to gladden me in the land of my adoption, 

 lending a bright gleam to my setting sun, and shed- 

 ding a chastened joy over my closing years. 



With deepest gratitude to each and all of you for 

 your numerous acts of esteem and goodwill, and with 

 a hearty prayer for long life and prosperity to your 

 honourable Club, and to each individual member, 

 allow me, for " Auld Lang Syne," to subscribe myself, 

 Your obedient Servant, 



THE AUTHOR. 



LONDON, August 19th, 1862. 



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