NOTE 



I THANK the proprietors of the Field, Macmillarfs 

 Magazine, and the Evening Standard and St. James's 

 Gazette for their permission to use, in this book, articles 

 which they have published. Those from the Field were 

 originally entitled : The Friendship of the River, A Day with 

 the Keeper, Some Dry-fly Refinements, A Blank Day, The 

 Great Dry-fly Myth, The Purism of Flounder Fishing, The 

 Crackling of Thorns, Fishing Trophies, The Patience of 

 Anglers, The Perfect Thrill, The Trout at the Boundary, 

 Then and Now, The Essential Falsity, Three Days on the 

 Sea-Stream, and A Norwegian Interlude. 



To Macmillarfs Magazine I am indebted for Isaac on a 

 Chalk Stream, and to the Evening Standard and St. James's 

 Gazette for Mors Janua, in this book called Of Death. 



