Excerpt from Super Flumina: Angling Observations of a Coarse Fisherman
This extract is from Systema Agricultur?. The mystery of husbandry discovered by J. W., Gent, whose proper name was John Worlidge, and who flourished in the enquiring days of Charles II.
Ingenious reader, or reader who would fain be numbered among the ingenious, I must confess to you that this excerpt revived in me the smouldering flames of an old forgone love, and raised again the memory of old haunts, ponds, brooks, piers, and abandoned lashers, where once I had lingered long in patient hope, and whence I had returned wet, late and triumphant, with some two or three, or at the most twenty, sardine-like silvery things, which elders received with scant gratitude, nay, often with contumely. But then alas! came the years and the world, study, business, (that "frivolous pretence of human lusts to shake off innocence,") and the foolish avocations of love, marriage, fatherhood, ambition, criticism, reform, and a host of such like, and I was weaned for a little space from this moderate, innocent and salubrious life, until this John Worlidge came to me in my dreams, and ground-baited all the streams of the world with his enticements.
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