THIS book has been written with the intention of giving the 

 reader a trustworthy account and description of the sport 

 obtained on and around the lagoons, waterways and marsh- 

 lands of East Anglia, a district which has been known for 

 many years past by the appropriate name of Broadland. 



A great many books have already been published dealing 

 with the Norfolk Broads and the district, but I trust no 

 apology is needed for thus adding to their number, for the 

 present one does not, I venture to affirm, clash with its 

 predecessors in publication a somewhat bold assertion truly, 

 but one which the title of my book seems to justify, as there 

 has not been, as far as the present writer's knowledge goes, 

 any previous work dealing exclusively with the sports and 

 pastimes in this interesting district, though most, if not all, of 

 the books hitherto published descriptive of this part of the 

 country contain one or two chapters on the subject. Whether 

 the contents of the book justifies its title is a matter which 

 must be left to the kind judgment of its readers. 



My facts, I believe, are true to life, and I have endeavoured 

 to the best of my ability to narrate in the following pages 



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