PREFACE. 



This book assumes to be nothing more than is 

 implied in its title. The sketches do not even pre- 

 tend to exhaust the topics of which they treat, much 

 less to include all the subjects which might be 

 reasonably looked for in a book for wanderers and 

 anglers. 



Some day, if the success of the present volume 

 should warrant the undertaking, a second series 

 of "Waterside Sketches" may make amends for 

 present omissions. 



Most of the chapters in this book originally ap- 

 peared in the Gentleman' s J^Iagazine, but they are 

 reprinted with numerous additions. The story- 

 introduced in Chapter X. appeared in Tom Hood's 

 Comic Annual for 1874. 



W. S. 

 March 20, 1875. 



