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being violent ; and that composure of mind 

 so necessary to the perfect health of the 

 body to which angling so materially con- 

 tributes, must all have had an influence on 

 their physical constitution, the effect of 

 which is perceived in the protracted duration 

 of their lives. Henry Jenkins, who lived 

 to the age of one hundred and sixty-nine, 

 and who boasted, when giving evidence in a 

 court of justice to a fact of one hundred 

 and twenty years' date, that he could dub a 

 fly as well as any man in Yorkshire, con- 

 tinued angling for more than a century after 

 the greater number of those who were born 

 at the same time were mouldering in their 

 graves. What mighty changes and revolu- 

 tions in his own country did this man live 

 to see ! He saw the Abbot of Fountains in 

 his dignity and power ; and he saw him and 

 his brethren driven from the abbey like 

 proscribed outcasts, whom it was dangerous 

 to pity, and almost criminal to harbour. 

 He saw Roman Catholics burning Protes- 



