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worth's poems, excepting the volume which 

 he will constantly carry in his pocket. With 

 his angling dress, let him assume the cha- 

 racter of a plain, single-minded man, who 

 for a while laying aside the artificial distinc- 

 tions of society, is willing to pass amongst 

 his fellow men at his own intrinsic value. 



The angler's dress had best consist of a 

 plain brown or dark green coat, cut some- 

 thing in the style of a shooting jacket, but 

 without such an abundance of pockets; 

 trowsers of a color best suited to resist the 

 stains of mud and clay ; thin lamb's-wool 

 stockings never walk in cotton ones a 

 pair of stout walking shoes, and a pair of 

 short gaiters, which will be found espe- 

 cially useful in crossing a heathery fell with 

 here and there a patch of spongy bog. An 

 extra shirt and pair of stockings, neatly 

 packed in oilskin, should always be carried 

 in the creel when the angler is likely to be 

 a few days absent from the place where he 

 has left, or forwarded his luggage. Should 



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