DEDICATORY LETTER 



DEAR H. T. S., 

 It is a commonplace that there are too 

 many books on angling. 



My instinct, therefore, is to follow the established 

 custom of authors who write on that subject, and 

 hypocritically to apologise for what I have done. 



But gratitude compels me to dedicate the 

 Angler at Large to you, the man the most truly, 

 though perhaps not the most conspicuously, re- 

 sponsible for its appearance. For lacking your 

 encouragements (of which this book is the most 

 direct fruit), very possibly I had been still flounder- 

 ing clueless in the labyrinth of Conveyancing Law, 

 and employing my pen upon the infinitely dis- 

 creditable labour of storing up trouble for the 

 harmless unborn children of inoffensive clients. 

 You have done more than any twenty men 

 (though less than one woman) to save me from 

 this misery and infamy, and I hold myself bound 

 publicly to testify my obligation. 



You are, then, the natural dedicatee of this book. 



But if I follow the custom which I have men- 

 tioned if, that is to say, I apologise for adding to 



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