WILL YOU GO? 



Good friend, you have read the title page hereof, tell- 

 ing you that I propose to go a-fishing, and the table of 

 contents, which has given you some idea as to where I 

 think of going. If you turn over this leaf it will imply 

 that you accept the invitation to go with me. But be 

 warned in time. The best of anglers does not always 

 find fish; and the most skillful casting of a fly does not 

 always bring up trout. Often chubs and perch and red- 

 fins — yea, even pickerel and pumpkin-seeds — rise to the 

 fly, and you may be thereat disgusted. You can not be 

 sure that you will find what you want, or what you will 

 like, if you go beyond this page. If, however, you have 

 the true angler's spirit, and will go a-fishing prepared to 

 have a good day of it, even though the weather turn out 

 vile and the sport wretched, then turn over the leaf and 

 let us be starting. 



