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INDEX BY AUTHORS

O'CONNELL, DANIEL. My Favorite Book, 62.

OSBORNE, MAITLAND LEROY. Piscator, Don't Brag! 303.

PARKER, SAM. A Fisher Once Was I, 200.

PECK, P. S. Fishin' Time, 268.

PHILLIPS, HENRY. Good Fishing, 119.

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POPE, ALEXANDER. Born at London, 1688; died at Twickenham, 1744.
A writer of "correct verse"; a master of the rhyming couplet; but lacking in
poetic fervor and imagination. Angling, 248.

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH. Born at London, 1802; died there, 1839.
Educated at Eton and Cambridge; member of Parliament; one of the writers
of society verse. Fishing Is Fine When the Pool Is Muddy, 159.
PUTNAM, FRANK. An American newspaper man. Fishing Song, 205.

RICE, GRANTLAND. Born at Nashville, Tenn., 1880.

Attended Vanderbilt
University; one of the best known sporting writers in America; his column,
"The Sportlight," is widely syndicated. Ballade of the Gamefish, 43.
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Born at Greenfield, Ind., 1849; died at Indian-
apolis, 1916. Public school education; received honorary degrees from several
universities; called the "People's Laureate" because of the wide popularity
of his poetry. At Broad Ripple, 26; Down Around the River, 136; The Fishing-
Party, 314; Up and Down Old Brandywine, 109.

ROSE, RAY CLARKE. Keep Fishin', 256; With Rod and Reel, 183.
ROSS, ROBERT ERSKINE. The Hidden Pool, 140.

SAGE, DEAN. Salmon, 85.

SCOLLARD, CLINTON. Born at Clinton, N. Y., 1860.

A well-known modern

poet; author of many books of verse. The Angler, 253; The Fisherman, 190.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Born at Edinburgh, 1771; died at Abbotsford, 1832.
Novelist and poet. On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun, 186.

SEARS, GEORGE W. Died at Williamsport, W. Va., 1890; conductor of
angling departments in magazines; a literary recluse who lived close to
nature; a great deal of splendid nature verse in his book "Forest Runes."
That Trout, 249.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Born at Stratford on Avon, 1564; died there,
Give Me Mine Angle, 64; How Men Live, 65;

1616. Dramatist and poet.
The Pleasant'st Angling, 64.
SHARPE, THEODORE. The Conundrum of the Ages, 90.

SHAW, T. R. Fishin' with an Old Bamboo, 275.

SHEA, JOHN CHARLES. I Want to Go Fishing To-Day, 139.

SIMMONS, WILLIAM E. One of the best known of modern anglers. Early
youth spent in South Carolina; last thirty years a New York newspaper man.
"The Colonel," as he is known among his angling companions, is said to be
the first angler to catch shad on Long Island with an angle worm. He has had
sixty years' angling experience. Channel Bass Fishing, 237.

SMITH, D. G. We've All Seen Him, 199.

SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. Born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland; died
at Antignano, near Leghorn, Italy, 1771. Novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Leven Water, 258.

SOMMERVILLÉ, WILLIAM. Born at Edstone, Warwickshire, Eng., 1675; died
there, 1742. Educated at Winchester and Oxford. Writer of verse. Fishing,
189.
STAFF, GEORGE B. Contributor of angling verse to present-day magazines.
Fly Casting, 168; Where the Redeyes Bite, 177.

STANTON, FRANK L. Born at Charleston, S. C., 1857. Identified with the
American press for years, especially with the "Atlanta Constitution," in which
his poems have been a feature, and have won for him a wide reputation. A
Fisherman in Town, 179; On a River Bank So Green, 35; What Bothers Him,
192; When Jenny Come Along, 84; When the Fishin' Pole Is Noddin', 311.
STINSON, SAM S. American writer. After 14 years of daily newspaper work,
he became a free lance writer in 1904, contributing to the comic weeklies and
fiction magazines. Has issued two books of verse. Ballade of the False and
the True, 281; When the Fish Begin to Bite, 156.

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STODDART, THOMAS TOD. Born in Edinburgh, 1810; died 1880.

An ex-

ample of a man who devoted his entire life to angling. Once upon being asked
what his occupation was, he answered, "I am an angler, Sir." He was a very
expert fisherman, having a great delicacy of wrist, and a wonderful knowledge
of the habits and haunts of fish. He is one of the outstanding figures in angling
and angling literature, and his book upon Scottish streams is a standard in
accuracy, and second only to Walton's in catching the pleasures of fishing.
His books are: "The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lakes of Scotland,
"Angling Songs," and "An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs." An Angler's
Grave, 308; Bring the Rod, the Line, the Reel! 274; Song, 132; The Angler's
Benediction, 96; The Angler's Invitation, 23; The Angler's Trysting-Tree, 58;
The Angler's Vindication, 259; The Bonnie Tweed, 228; The Happy Angler,
129; The Holy-Well Pool, 164; The River, 172; The Sea-Trout Grey, 239; The
Taking of the Salmon, 246; The Yellow Fins o' Yarrow, 216; Trolling Song,
65; Ye Warders of the Waters, 208.

STREET, ALFRED BILLINGS. Born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1811; died 1881.
Early writer of out-doors sports; editor; State librarian the last half of his
life. Spearing, 168.

Became poet laureate,
TENNYSON, ALFRED. Born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng., 1809; died at
Aldworth House, near Haslemere, Surrey, 1892.
1850; raised to the peerage, 1884. The Brook, 125.
THOMPSON, MAURICE. Born at Fairfield, Ind., 1844; died 1901. Lawyer,
editor, and author. Ho, for the Kankakee! 234.
THOMSON, JAMES. Born at Ednam, Roxburghshire, Scotland, 1700; died near
Best known as the author of "The Seasons."
Richmond, Eng., 1748.
Spring, 174.

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND. Born at Ogden, N. Y., 1827; died 1916.
Novelist, juvenile writer, and poet. Trouting, 250.

VAN de WATER, FREDERIC F. Born at Pompton Lakes, N. J., 1890. Attended
New York University and Columbia. Reporter, special writer, and night
Interests mainly in tramping, rid-
city editor of the "New York Tribune."
ing, fishing, and canoeing. Fishing, 289.

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Born at Germantown, Pa., 1852. Preacher, essayist,
poet, and diplomat. Has written some of the best books in modern angling
literature. The Angler's Reveille, 28; When Tulips Bloom, 126.

WADE, BLANCHE ELIZABETH. Frequent contributor of poetry to present-
day periodicals. The Angler, 211.

WALTON, IZAAK. Born at St. Mary, Stafford, 1593; died at Winchester, 1683.
He was the son of a Staffordshire yeoman; as a lad he was apprenticed in Lon-
don to Thomas Grinsell, an ironmonger. When a young man he set himself up
in a humble half-shop in Fleet Street, as an ironmonger. The traditional
statement that he was a draper has no authentic evidence in fact. While he
was at Fleet Street, Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, Sir Henry Wotton, and
Dr. Hales of Eton were among his friends. The friendship of these men of higher
station attests the pleasingness and attractiveness of his character. In 1626 he
married Rachael Floud (or Floyd) at St Mildred's, Canterbury. All seven of
his children by her died in infancy. She died in 1640. About 1646 he married
Anne, daughter of Thomas Ken, and half-sister of Bishop Ken. About two
years later his daughter Anne, who married in 1678 William Hawkins of Win-
chester and with whom Walton spent much of the last twenty years of his
life, was born. His second wife died in 1662. His son, Izaak, who was born
in 1651, lived until 1719. Walton was buried in Winchester Cathedral in
the north transept. The "Father of Angling" lived in very troublesome times,
and the tide was so strong against the monarchy even as early as 1644 that he
sold his shop in Fleet Street in that year and retired to the country. While
a stanch royalist and member of the Anglican Church, he was very tolerant of
others. His angling classic is too well known to need comment; besides this
masterpiece he wrote lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert, and others.
It is interesting that "The Compleat Angler" was issued in May, 1653, just

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before Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and its author
must have been peculiarly detached from the hatreds of his age and serene
in temperament to have written it in the midst of one of the greatest conflicts
England ever experienced. The Angler, 31; The Angler's Wish, 226.

WARD, C. N. Angling Reveries, 233.

WARING, CARL. The Trout Brook, 107.

WESTWOOD, THOMAS. Born in England, 1816; died at Brussels, 1888. Charles
Lamb taught him his Latin, and gave him free use of his library when West-
wood was a child. At 30 he was appointed secretary and afterwards director
of an Anglo-Belgian railroad company, and thenceforth spent most of his life
in Belgium, where he owned a large estate on which was a river with 12 miles
of excellent fishing. He had an intimate correspondence with many of the lead-
ing literary figures of his time, especially Mrs. Browning. Besides being an
ardent angler, he made a distinct contribution to angling literature in his
"Bibliotheca Piscatoria, a general catalogue of angling and fishing literature."
He also wrote a bibliographical record of the various phases and mutations of
"The Compleat Angler." A Lay of the Lea, 244; The Trout Fisher's Pleasures,
289; Walton's "Compleat Angler," 236.

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Born at Haverhill, Mass., 1807; died at
Hampton Falls, N. H., 1892. Of Quaker ancestry; edited several magazines;
ardent opponent of slavery. The Fishermen, 210.
WIBORN, J. AUBURN. The Angler's Prayer, 294.
WILBUR, CONSTANCE FASSETT. Fishin', 254.

WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER.

Born at Johnston Centre, Wis., 1855; died
at her home in Connecticut, 1919. Educated at the University of Wisconsin;
writer of a great deal of popular poetry. Fishing, 46.

WILLIS, ELSIE D. Castin', 174.

WOLCOT, JOHN. Born near Kingsbridge, Devonshire, Eng., 1738; died at Lon-
don, 1819. Physician, satirist, and poet. To a Fish of the Brook, 80.
WOODRUFF, PAUL H. When You, 50.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng., 1770;
died at Rydal Mount, 1850. Friend of Coleridge; poet of nature; became poet
laureate, 1843. Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Compleat Angler," 157.
WOTTON, SIR HENRY. Born at Bocton Malherbe, Kent, Eng., 1568; died at
Eton, 1639. Diplomatist and miscellaneous writer. On a Bank As I Sate
A-Fishing, 206.

STREAMS MENTIONED IN THE POEMS

AIL. A minor river of Scotland.

ALPHEUS. Principal river of the Peloponnesus, Greece, arising in Arcadia and emptying into the Ionian Sea. Same as the modern Rufia. Some parts of its course are underground.

AVON. Avon is a very common designation for rivers in Great Britain, there being four rivers in England and three in Scotland by that name. BRANDYWINE. A creek on the eastern edge of Greenfield, Indiana. BRULE. A short river in northeastern Minnesota, flowing into Lake Superior. COQUET. A river in Northumberland, England, flowing into the North Sea. ETTRICK. A river of Scotland, 32 miles long, joining the Tweed near Selkirk. EUROTAS. Chief river in Laconia, Greece, arising in Mount Boreum and flowing into the Laconian Gulf. Same as modern Iri or Iris. It is about 45 miles long.

GALA. A river of Scotland, a tributary of the Tweed.

KALE. A small river in Roxburghshire, Scotland, flowing into the Teviot. KANKAKEE. A river in northwestern Indiana and eastern Illinois, uniting with the Des Plaines to form the Illinois River.

KEN. A river of Scotland, connected with the Dee.

LEA (LEE). A river in England, uniting with the Thames near the Isle of Dogs, London.

LEVEN. A river in Fife, Scotland, issuing from the southeast of Loch Leven and flowing eastward 14 miles into the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven. LOIRE. The largest river of France, over 600 miles long, flowing into the Bay of Biscay.

LYNE. A river in Peeblesshire, Scotland, a tributary of the Tweed.

MANOR. A small river in Peeblesshire, Scotland.

ST. JOHN. A river in Maine and Canada, emptying into the Bay of Fundy. ST. LAWRENCE. One of the principal rivers of North America, the outlet of the Great Lakes.

SEVERN. A river in England, about 200 miles long, arising in Wales and emptying into the Bristol Channel.

SHAWFORD BROOK. A small stream in Straffordshire.

TALLA. A minor stream in Scotland.

TEVIOT. A river in Scotland, about 40 miles long, a tributary of the Tweed. THAMES. The largest river in Great Britain, about 228 miles long, arising near Cirencester and emptying into the North Sea.

TRENT. A river in England, about 170 miles long, arising in Straffordshire and uniting with the Ouse to form the Humber.

TWEED. River in Scotland and on the boundary between Scotland and England, 97 miles long, entering the North Sea at Berwick.

WANSBECK. River of Northumberland, England, emptying into the North Sea at Camboise.

WEAR. River in Durham, England, flowing into the North Sea at Sunderland.

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NOTES

(Numbers in parentheses refer to lines of the poems)

Page 26-AT BROAD RIPPLE. At the time this poem was written Broad Ripple was a very small town on the banks of the White River north of Indianapolis. Page 31-THE ANGLER. (13) Aurora, goddess of the dawn. (34) gentles, maggots or larvæ of the flesh-fly, used as bait. (40) fray, an archaic word meaning frighten.

Page 33-THE FISHERMAN'S FEAST. (37) Chronos, Time.

Page 60-MY BEST KENTUCKY REEL. Grover Cleveland and Joseph Jefferson, the famous actor, were for years angling companions.

Page 66-TO AN OLD FRIEND. (12) rathe, pertaining to the early part of the year or season.

Page 68-THE ANGLER'S BALLAD. The last four stanzas of this poem refer to definite political conditions. Cotton, as a royalist and conservative, feared a new civil war in England.

Page 74-COROMANDEL FISHERS. The Coromandel Coast is off the eastern side of the Indian Peninsula.

Page 79-A FISHERMAN S PETITION.

(1) Ananias was a Jewish Christian

who was struck dead for fraud and lying. Page 83-TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED THIS DAY. (15) Batavia, Holland. (16) Caledonia, Scotland. (17) Hibernia, Ireland.

Page 89-THE ANGLER'S CAROL. (30) stone, a weight, formerly of varying amount, now legally fourteen pounds in Great Britain. (35) "The face," etc., the fisherman's usual drinking toast.

Page 91-THE BAIT. This poem is an answer and echo to Marlowe's lyric "The Shepherd to His Love."

Page 92-THE SALMON FLY. (18) Scotia, Scotland. (48) Cathay's rare worm, the silk-worm of China.

(11) famous "line," the equator. (1) Southron, Southerner,

Page 101-HAMPSHIRE FLY-FISHING. Page 103-NORTH COUNTRY FLY-FISHING. one living in southern England. Page 109-UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE. (58) Old Irvin' Hunt and Aunt Jane Hunt lived in a little cottage on the banks of the Brandywine. They were born slaves and the first negroes to come to Greenfield. This old negro was such a good fisherman that he was reputed to catch fish "where there weren't any.'

Page 113-THE FIRST FISHERMAN. (8) pre-Pelasgian, before the Pelasgians, who are mentioned by classical writers as the primitive dwellers in Greece and the eastern islands of the Mediterranean. (12) mesozoic, one of the grand divisions of geological history between the paleozoic and the cenozoic, characterized by the spread of reptiles. (17) Ananias, see note for page 79. Page 119-THE WAYS OF THE FISHERMAN. (2) engines, devices, inventions. Page 121-THE INVITATION. Tom Hughes, the author of "Tom Brown's School-Days" and "Tom Brown at Oxford." (7) Snowdon, a mountain in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the highest mountain in England or Wales, and noted for its grand view. (15) Siabod, a mountain in Wales. Page 124-THE WICKED FISHERMAN. To a Fellow-Angler, G. M. M. These verses were written in the woods near Ashland, Wisconsin, on a Sunday morning when Mr. Browne was laid up with a broken ankle, and were addressed to George M. Millard, his fishing companion. (2) Funday, an inlet, about 140 miles long and from 30 to 50 miles wide, on the Atlantic coast between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the tides of which reach the enormous height of from 60 to 70 feet. (6) Dundee, an old tune of the Scottish Psalter. (10)

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