PREFACE

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PREFACE

Dedication to Mrs Herbert Hills

'NO FISHER BUT A WELL-WISHER TO THE GAME.'

IN MEMORY OF PLESANT DAYS AT CORBY

 

Several of the sketches in this volume have appeared in periodicals. "The Bloody Doctor" was in Macmillan's Magazine , "The Confessions of a Duffer," "Loch Awe," and "The Lady or the Salmon?" were in the Fishing Gazette , but have been to some extent re-written. "The Double Alibi" was in Longman's Magazine . The author has to thank the Editors and Publishers for permission to reprint these papers.

The gem engraved on the cover is enlarged from a small intaglio in the collection of Mr. M. H. N. STORY-MASKELYNE, M.P. Such gems were recommended by Clemens of Alexandria to the early Christians. "The figure of a man fishing will put them in mind of the Apostle." Perhaps the Greek is using the red hackle described by AElian in the only known Greek reference to fly-fishing.

NOTE TO NEW EDITION

The historical version of the Black Officer's career, very unlike the legend in "Loch Awe," may be read in Mr. Macpherson's Social Life in the Highlands . _

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