WITH

ROD AND REEL

FOR

TROUT AND SALMON.

BY GEORGE DAWSON.

He that hopes to be a good Angler must not only bring an inquiring, search-
ing, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and
a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it,
then doubt not but that Angling will be so pleasant that it will prove to be,
like Virtue, a reward to itself. - WALTON.

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NEW YORK:

SHELDON & COMPANY,

8 MURRAY STREET.

1876.

Ang 18.76.5

Harvard College Library.

17 Nov. 1892.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six,

BY GEORGE DAWSON,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY,
PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS,
ALBANY, N. Y.

PREFACE.

Most of the sketches which make up this volume were published in the Albany Evening Journal, at long intervals, during the past three years. Their title indicates their character and purpose, namely, to set forth the "Pleasures of Angling" by detailing some of the incidents common to its pursuit. If they shall afford any pleasure to the "simple wise men" who enjoy the innocent pastime and the quiet repose which no other recreation affords in such full measure, I will not regret that they have been given a form which was not originally intended.

G. D.