FISHING AS A SPOET. 97 



Edmund Waller, the most charming " song " writer in 

 the English language, though he wrote two centuries ago, 

 and for ever to be remembered as the author of the Ode 

 On a Lady's GHrdle, and himself, as Walton tells us, " a 

 lover of the angle," has immortalized lady anglers in his 

 poem entitled On a Lady Fishing with an Angle, and 

 commencing — 



" See where the fair Clorinda sits." 



I would that the " screaming sisterhood " of these 

 latter days would take to the Angle instead of to law, 

 physic, and the assertion of " Woman's Eights." No one 

 will deny their right to enjoy Eishing as a Sport. 



