“Though the love of angling is generally acquired in 
youth, yet it sometimes attacks persons of more matured age ; 
conveys a maggot into their head, and then they dream of 
gentiles ; tickles their nose with a Mayfly, and straight they 
talk of palmers, red and black, dun cuts, granams, coachman, 
professors, gnats, moths, March browns and peacock hackles ; 
shows them a salmon in a fishmonger's shop, and then they 
think of nothing but angling ; and 
Winna let the puir bodies 
Gang about their business !” 
From “The Angler’s Souvenir.” Edited by G. Chris- 
topher Davies. 
