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old-fashioned, and such as only become an 

 old countryman, who feels a pleasure to dwell 

 in the old house where his fathers lived 

 before him ; and who thinks it better that he 

 and his should be cultivators of the earth 

 and keepers of cattle for themselves and 

 fellow-countrymen, than spinners of twist 

 and weavers of calico, worse than being 

 hewers of wood and drawers of water, for 

 all the world. 



Oliver. When you were in London in 

 September last, did you visit any of the 

 fishing-tackle maker's shops, Mr. Reed, and 

 did you take a day's fishing in the neigh- 

 bourhood ? 



Reed. I did both and I must confess 

 that such flies and such tackle I never saw 

 before. It is a pity that the rivers near 

 London afford so little worthy of employing 

 them. I was out one day at the river Lea, 

 which to me seemed little better than a great 

 mill dam, winding its sluggish way through 

 a marshy flat, and affording the chance of 



