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strong enough to shift about for a living, in the way 

 he did when in health. He called upon us two 

 months or so before he died, in miserable health, and 

 thinly clad, and we had the satisfaction of seeing 

 him leave with a lighter heart. He was of gipsy 

 extraction, we believe, and from anything we know to 

 the contrary and we saw a good deal of him during 

 the later years of his life he was honest and trust- 

 worthy. Let anglers note this: he blamed his 

 incessant wading in his early years for his early 

 death. 



HOMEWARD ROUTE. 



PERHAPS the greatest drudge connected with angling 

 is after a long and successful day's sport, to have to 

 walk a number of miles before reaching home, under 

 the pressure of a heavy basket and an empty stomach, 

 accompanied sometimes with a burning sun and a 

 dusty hard road. We have made this " weary pil- 

 grimage " so often that in reflective moments, when 

 that part of a day's sport comes into view, we some- 

 times break into a perspiration the very remem- 

 brance of it is so overpowering. We shall narrate, 

 however, the way we have found it most easy to get 

 over^the ground under such circumstances, hoping 



