TO 
MY FISHING HOSTS AND FISHING FRIENDS 
IN AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, AMERICA, 
THE WEST INDIES, AND EUROPE. 
UPON THEM, UPON ME MAY THE GODS BESTOW 
THE BOON ‘CRAVED BY Mk. ANDREW LANG! 
“ Within the streams, Pausanias saith, 
That down Cocytus valley flow, 
Girdling the grey domain of Death, 
The spectral fishes come and go; 
The ghosts of trout fly to and fro, 
Persephone, fulfil my wish, 
And grant that in the shades below 
My ghost may land the ghosts of fish!” 
