The Compleat Angler

A fair bit of the book is available on-line....I was fortunate to get a copy
of the last issue, more like lucky. I was walking along a street in Halifax
NS and there it was in the window - I wanted a copy for years. Went in -
opened the cover and there was the price $7.00 !!!! Still had the mint
cover on it too. There is a fishing God.

Who cares if he plagiarized something from a hundred years before his time.
If he did, he was a lucky guy to have the original book (if he did!) Maybe
Izaak just thought along the same lines. Old Izaak was onto
something......He had appreciation for the rivers and fish...As:

Of recreation there is none
So free as fishing is alone;
All other pastimes do no less
Than mind and body both possess:
My hand alone my work can do,
So I can fish and study too.


And, from The Anglers Song in the book:

As inward love breeds outward talk
The hound some praise, and some the hawk
Some, better pleas'd with private sport
Use tennis, some a mistress court:
But these delights I neither wish
Nor envy, while I freely fish.

Keith P.

"Salmo" wrote in message
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A fair bit of the book is available on-line....

The compleat text is available.....for free.....from Project Gutenberg at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tcang10.txt

Wolfgang

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 at 12:36:27 in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly Wolfgang
wrote:

"Salmo" wrote in message
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A fair bit of the book is available on-line....

The compleat text is available.....for free.....from Project Gutenberg at:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tcang10.txt

That's one of the later editions...

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Nogood Boyo

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 at 18:06:33 in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly Salmo wrote:
[...]

Of recreation there is none
So free as fishing is alone;
All other pastimes do no less
Than mind and body both possess:
My hand alone my work can do,
So I can fish and study too.

A couple of my favourite bits, from memory:

"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to
contemplate and fools to pass by without consideration"

and

"Study to be quiet"...

It's worth pointing out that there are lots of different editions, the
later ones getting much more bloated. I've got a facsimile of the first
edition - it's easy to get nicely produced copies quite cheaply. Fits
easily in a small pocket. Not easy to read some of the script but
absolutely delightful..!

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Nogood Boyo