FISH: 



THEIR HABITS AND HAUNTS. 



The Art of Angling is a very ancient one. 

 It is difficult to say when it did not exist. 

 Representations of fish and of fishing have 

 been found upon some of the oldest tombs 

 and most venerable remains extant. 



In every community of savage life are 

 found instruments of angling, — rude enough, 

 but sufficiently effective for the wants of 

 those who employ them, — showing the 

 various inventions for fishing to have been 

 primitive and universal. 



One of the first treatises on angling in the 

 English language is that of Dame Julianna 

 Bernes, published in 1496. The next is by 

 the well-known Isaac Walton, in 1653 ; and 

 since then the number of works of this 



