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The boy's own handbook : angling

Now, my lads, for a day's fishing ; but first I must tell you a little about angling, and the requisites necessary for the sport.

In a rude state of society, angling was resorted to from necessity. This occupation soon became an amusement for those who had leisure enough to spend time in it, as it affords to most people much pleasure. We find occasional allusions to this pursuit among the Greek writers, and throughout the most ancient books of the Bible. It is said that angling came into repute in England about the period of the reformation, jwhen both the secular and regular clergy, being prohibited by the common law from the amusements of hunting, hawking, and fowling, directed their attention to this recreation. The invention jof printing aided in drawing attentionto this subject, and made knownits importance " to cause the helthe of your body, and specyally of your soul," as the first treatise concludes. Wynkin de Worde gave the world, in 1496, a small folio republication of the 'celebrated Book of St. Albans. It contained, for the first time, a curious tract, entitled the Treaty se of FysTiingc wytli an Angle, embellished with a wood-cut of the angler. This treatise is ascribed to dame Juliana Berners or Barnes, prioress of a nunnery near St. Albans

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: London : H. Lea.,
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