8i Fly-FiJhing. 



But to all (and their name, I believe, is legion] 

 who figh for the fight of the fweet country, when 

 it begins to gather its gay, green garniture, (all 

 the more welcome, perhaps, from the novelty of 

 the fcene,) can I warmly recommend the gentle 

 art, as ever ready to give a greater zeft to their 

 rambles, and a keener edge to their inclinations to 

 trace out the wildeft fcenery to be met with in the 

 mountain-glen, or the fofteft and fweeteft in the 

 fhady nooks that the voice of many waters firft 

 calls them to notice. 



To live and die in the country, what an envia- 

 ble lot ! Still, as fly-fiming, in its bare character, 

 would foon ceafe to intereft me as it does, fo 

 would the naked charms of the country be alone 

 inefficient to lure me abroad, as often as I could 

 wifh, for the refrefhment of the eye, the bracing 

 of the nerves, ay, and the foftening of the heart 

 too. It is in the union of the two, Pifcator, that 

 the fecret lies I told you I would venture to 

 refolve ; always remembering that the pleafure of 

 fly-fifhing is not amenable to the drawbacks fo 

 many others are that pall upon the tafte. 



Now, in cafe, like the old foldier who is faid to 

 be fo fond of fighting his battles over again, I 

 (hould be open to the charge of prattling too much. 



