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popular applause. But I am forgetting my 

 old anglers in my chapter of human inconsis- 

 tencies ; to return. Dr. Nowell was a most 

 indefatigable angler, allotting a tenth part 

 of his time to his favourite recreation, and 

 giving a tenth part of his income, and nearly 

 all the fish he caught, to the poor. He lived 

 .to the age of ninety-five, having neither his 

 eyesight, his hearing, nor his memory im- 

 paired. Walton himself, that 



" sage benign, 



Whose pen the mysteries of the rod and line 

 Unfolding, did not fruitlessly exhort 

 To reverent watching of each still report 

 That Nature utters from her rural shrine," 



lived to upwards of ninety ; Henry Mack- 

 enzie died in January, 1831, aged eighty- 

 six ; and the Rev. H. C., who resided a 

 short distance from here, and had been an 

 angler from his youth, continued to fish 

 after he was. upwards of eighty ; and I could 

 mention several others who are upwards of 

 seventy, and still continue in their " frosty, 



