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PREFATORY NOTE. xiii
angling Editor of the Field, Mr. Christopher Davies,
Mr. R. B. Marston, Editor of the Fisliing Gazette, and
Mr. Thomas Andrews, I am also under the greatest
obligation for the very charming and interesting con-
tributions to which their names are attached. I only
regret that circumstances should have unavoidably
deprived my readers of a promised contribution on
salmon fishing from the pen of His Grace the Duke
of Beaufort, which would have been warmly welcomed
by all fly-fishers.
For the rest, it has been my
aim to make these
volumes as practical as possible ; and if the exigencies
of this role have involved a certain amount of space
being devoted to more or less technical matters which,
however necessary and important, are, perhaps, less
attractive to the general angling public than to the
enthusiastic student I hope the other part of the pro-
gramme laid down by the Editor has not been over-
looked, and that the following pages will be found to
be sufficiently diversified with anecdotes and incidents
of sport to redeem them from being hopelessly '
reading.'
H. C.-P.
dull