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FIRST VISIT TO THE CASCAPEDIA.

PLEASURES OF ANGLING.

CHAPTER I.

PREFATORY AND APOLOGETIC.

To al you that ben vertuous: gentyll: and free borne I wryte and make this fymple treatife folowynge: by whyche ye may haue the full craft of anglynge to dyfport you at your lufte, to the entent that your aege maye the more floure and the more longer to endure. [Treatife of Fyffhynge with an Angle, 1496.

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HATEVER pleasure a veteran may find in occasionally recounting his deeds of valor, the rehearsal at some time becomes monotonous. So with these talks on Angling. They were well enough years ago, but they seem to the writer thereof hardly in harmony with the assumed gravity of "furrows," "wrinkles" and "hoary locks." Not that a true angler ever passes the line which takes him into the land of ailments and decrepitude. It is the glory of the art that its disciples never grow old. The muscles may relax and the beloved rod become a burden.

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