ANGLING

REMINISCENCES.

BY

FRANCIS FRANCIS,

Author of "Pickackifax, a Novel in Rhyme," "The Real Salt,"
Angler's Register," "Newton Dogvane," 'Sidney Bellew,"
Sporting Sketches," "Reports on Sal-

"Fish Culture," ''

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mon Ladders," "A Book on Angling," By Lake
and River," "Angling,"
""Hot Pot," "The Prac-

tical Management of Fisheries," "Eric
and Ethel, an Old-Fashioned Fairy
Tale," &c., &c.

LONDON:

HORACE COX,

"THE FIELD" OFFICE, 346, STRAND, W.C.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

74406

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY HORACE COX, 346, STRAND, W.C.

PREFACE.

WHILE the following sketches were in the press their author, after a long and painful illness, passed away. Very few of them, if any, have had the advantage of being corrected by him; for, although able to take an interest in selecting them from the mass of his former work, and to anticipate with pleasure their reproduction in a book form, the nature of his infirmities did not permit him to rewrite anything, or to make that effort which the concentration of his attention for the revision of proofs would have necessitated. The reader is asked, therefore, to bear this in mind, and to be lenient in his criticism of mistakes, if any should be discovered.