Fishing and Fishers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fishing and Fishers<br><br>My good friend, the author of this book, asked me to write an Introduction for it. Why should I Why should I not These questions he answered so satisfactorily, to himself if not to me, that I most heartily consented, but on the understanding that the few words I wrote should not be required to be praise or blame, approval or disapproval, agreement or disagreement; nor were they to be regarded as a sort of certificate of the author's high morals, physical health, mental superiority, or worldly solvency. The chapters of a book should, and of course always do, speak for themselves; and in these days your readers will, exceeding soon, form opinions on their own account. Under these circumstances to set out on the path of eulogy of the author, to dilate upon the length of our friendship and its depth, would be an impertinence.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.