PREFATORY NOTE 
connection with this book are sincerely 
and warmly thanked, one and all. 
To Mr. H. T. Sheringham, angling 
editor of the Fie/d, and author of some of the best 
and most authoritative works we have on angling 
(particularly should be mentioned his ‘“ Coarse 
Fishing”) is due the inspiration of this book. 
The writing of “In the Beginning” (Chapter I) is 
entirely the result of his experienced and gener- 
ous suggestion to include a chapter on “first 
beginnings,” the term he used. He has assisted 
me very really over this book. To “ Red Spinner” 
(Mr. William Senior) must be attributed the fact 
that I have endeavoured to write about fishing, 
and to that good man’s kindness and character- 
istics I was enabled gratefully to pay a tribute 
in the Fishing Gazette,* by special invitation of its 
editor, Mr. R. B. Marston. 
The sub-title, “ A book for ‘Slippered Ease,’”’ 
indicates, I hope, that the strict subject of trout 
has been departed from—oftener than I am afraid 
Poms who have rendered kindness in 
* Special article in the Fishing Gazette, February 14th, 1920. 
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