Excerpt from Sprigs of Heather: Or the Rambles of May-Fly With Old Friends
It has been my endeavor to make this volume something more than a mere tackleshop in type, wherein Thornton and Phin are the "Genii loci," and the Muses of the natural world are rarely consulted. My sketches are descriptive, historical, autobiographical, piscatorial, and lyrical - and thus I have sought to drape the subject of Angling in a literary garb. How I have succeeded in my aim it remains with the reading public to determine. But one thing at least is certain - that, if I have failed to entertain others, I myself have received a varied entertainment at the bounteous banquet of nature, where the trees and the flowers, the clouds of the sky and the songsters of the grove, the lochs and the streams, have been the ministering spirits.
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