tood my friend, ient skill,

        It is said t many an unlucky urco run aory of Robinson Crusoe; and I suspect t, in like manner, many of tlemen oral streams race to tive pages of    Izaak alton. I recollect studying e Angler several years sin pany    of friends in America, and moreover t ely bitten     as soon as t to melt into took rod in o try, as stark mad as e from reading books of chivalry.

        One of our party s, being attired cap-a-pie for terprise. ed fustian coat, perplexed s; a pair of stout sers; a basket slung on one side for ?sent rod, a landi, and a score of oto be found in true anglers armory. t a matter of stare and    among try folk, weel-clad he Sierra Morena.

        Our ?rst essay ain brook among t unfortunate place for tion of tory tactics        margins of quiet Engliss. It reams t lavisic solitudes, unies enougo ?ll tcer of turesque. Sometimes it imes it    along a ravine in tted s, ?lling it er termagant career eal forto open day    placid, demure face imaginable, as I ilent ser ?lling    of doors, sseying and smiling upon all the world.

        brook glide at sucimes tains, errupted by tinkling of a bell from ttle among tters axe from t!

        For my part, I    all kinds of sport t required eitience or adroitness, and    angled above ely "satis?ed timent,"

        and vinced myself of trutons opinion, t angling is sometry--a man must be born to it. I ead of tangled my line iree, lost my bait, broke my rod, until I gave up ttempt in despair, and passed trees reading old Izaak, satis?ed t it y and rural feeling t c t t before eyes, stealing along t lay open to ttern rising ; tcree t overortoise letting one    on ery world around.

        I recollect also t, after toiling and c for ter part of a day, e of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly try urcree, a fe more ?s the day!

        But, above all, I recollect t;good, , w;

        repast    by a spring of pure s er t stole out of t y read old Izaak altons se    castles in a brigil I fell asleep. All tism, yet I ot refrain from uttering tions,    long since.

        In troll along tiful little stream o ttention tracted to a group seated on t to sist of a veteran angler and tic disciples. t very carefully pating poverty ly e by aly maintained. orms, but present fair s furroitutional po take t . One of     poac could ?nd o alemans ?s nigall, ary lad, , and apparently someic beau. trout o discover by its tents s , and uring on t to o listen e deference. I o;brot; ever since I read Izaak alton. t;mild, s, and peaceable spirit;" and my esteem for t retyse of ?s forternity. "take good ; sayet little tretyse, "t in going about your disportes ye open no mans gates but t ye s t use ti disport for no covetouso t principally for your solace, and to cause t;*

        I t t I could perceive in teran angler before me an exempli?cation of edness in    quite dreo remark t manner in    of to anoto keep tess o any particular place, sometimes skimming it ligtle rapid, sometimes casting it into one of ted root or overrout are apt to lurk. In trus to    to my mind trus of tor to ry around    pastoral kind     of t plain of Ciful vale of Gessford, and just wo swell up from among fresh-smelling meadows.

        too, like t recorded in -dropping s soh diamonds.

        * From treatise it    angling is a more industrious a employment t is generally sidered: "For es in ?s desyre greatlye many persons    let you of yame. And t ye may serve God devoutly in saying effectually your able prayers. And to induce man to many ot is rig;

        I soon fell into versatioai, under pretext of receiving instrus in , I kept pany    tream and listening to alk. ive, y of ctle ?attered by unity of displaying ory lore, for o play the sage?

        icularly in Savannaered into trade and ion of a partner. eril    into t ttle of Camperdoroke of real good-fortune    got ogeternal property, brougy pounds. On tired to ive village, ly, aed to t; of angling."

        I found t on attentively, and o    good-ed about tis?ed t tself, iful. t tries as a poor s is ?eeced by every , yet ion o look only on t t unate adventurer in Amerid y and magnanimity enougo take t to    to curse try. t ions, I learnt,    of a fat old ation, and muced by tleman-like personages of the place.

        In taking o a privileged er in tap-room and an occasional cup of cheerful ale free of expense.

        tainly somet, o do, ties and tortures in?icted on s--t tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure serenity of mind. As tions, and are t sti?c of sportsmen, it o perfect rule and system. Indeed, it is an amusement peculiarly adapted to tivated sery of England,    is deligo saunter along treams ry, leading oy of small imes ed grounds; sometimes brimming along turage, imes venturing in sigs, and to sirements. tness and serenity of Nature and t c gradually bring on pleasant ?ts of musing, ed by tant , or per of till er and skimming traly about its glassy surface. " tent," says Izaak alton, "and increase ?den ty God, I ream, and template t take no care, and ttle living creatures t are not only created, but fed (man kno ure, and trust in ;

        I ot forbear to give anotation from one of t d :

        Let me live he brink

        here I may see my quill, or cork, down sink

        ite of Pike, or Bleak, or Dace;

         some men strive ill-gotten goods t embrace:

        And otime in base excess

        Let t imes still pursue,

        And on sucheir ?ll;

        So I the ?elds and meadows green may view,

        On parting er o be in tero seek . I found tage taining only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its met. It s of ttle back from t stocked c of ttage op ted up in a truly nautical style,    and venience ime ake but little room. From tre of table, and a large sea-ed t tuck up naval ballads, suc;Admiral ,"

        "All in t; and "tom Bo; intermingled ures of sea-?gtle of Camperdoed , ?anked by ts of most bitter-looking naval anders. s fling aining a ical almanad a book of songs.

        * J. Davors.

        ed of a large black cat    amed and educated tered a variety of sea-ptling tone of a veteran boatsablis reminded me of t of t    i order, everyt;sto; y of a s ;scoured t it bet;

        I found ed on a benc evening suns    describing some strange evolutions in an ir t sre of ory of    eness as a general alk over a campaign, being particularly animated iing taken a large trout, asked all    as a tropo mine ess of the inn.

        ing it is to see a ted old age, and to beer being tempest-tost t    of external circumstances, for    inexible good-nature    of self like oil over troubled sea of t, and keeping t her.

        On inquiring furt    t e in tap-room, iisories of strange lands and ss. iced too by gentlemen sportsmen of taug of angling, and or to tor of    and inoffensive, being principally passed about treams imes    ackle for t campaign or manufacturing rods, s, and ?ies for rons and pupils among try.

        tendant at c icular request t    wher had been buried.

        I    my reader is gro I could not refrain from draure of t;brot; ice, of ; and I c Izaak alton, by craving t.

        Peters Master upon my reader, "and upon all t are true lovers of virtue, and dare trust in , and go a-angling."
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