Fishing. 1 1 



diver to fasten a fish upon his hook, which 

 first delighted him with his apparent success, 

 but afterwards caused him to feel annoyed 

 with his inamorata for bringing him into 

 ridicule. 



From the earliest records down to the days 

 of Isaac Walton and our own times, angling 

 has been practised and enjoyed as being a 

 most delightful sport. Sir Henry Wotton 

 calls angling " an employment for idle time, 

 which was not then idly spent; for angling 

 after tedious study was a rest to his mind, a 

 cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a 

 calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of 

 passion, a procurer of contentedness, and 

 begets habits of peace and patience in those 

 who practise it." In ancient Eome the 

 artificial fly was used as a bait, and fish-hooks 

 of hardened bronze and of steel have been 

 disinterred from the buried ruins of Pompeii. 

 Martial refers to fish " decoyed and caught by 

 fraudful flies," and iElian describes the con- 

 struction of the same by instructing the 

 angler — 



" Around the hook a chosen fur to wind, 

 And on the back a speckled feather bind." 



