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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters + also, Miseries of Fishing + +Author: Richard Penn + +Release Date: July 23, 2011 [EBook #36821] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAXIMS AND HINTS ON ANGLING *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, Emmy and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<h1>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> + +<span class='small'>ON</span><br /> + +ANGLING, CHESS, SHOOTING,<br /> + +<span class='small'>AND</span><br /> + +OTHER MATTERS;<br /> + +<span class='small'>ALSO,</span><br /> + +MISERIES OF FISHING.</h1> + +<div class='center'><b>With Wood-Cuts.</b><br /> +<br /><br /> +<span class='small'>BY</span><br /> +<span class='author'>RICHARD PENN, Esq., F.R.S.</span><br /> +<br /> +————<br /> +<span class='small'><i>A NEW EDITION, ENLARGED.</i></span><br /> +————<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +LONDON:<br /> +JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.<br /> +———<br /> +<span class='small'>MDCCCXLII.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='copyright'> +LONDON:<br /> +Printed by <span class="smcap">William Clowes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sons</span>,<br /> +Stamford Street.<br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'>Maxims and Hints for an Angler</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Miseries of Fishing</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Maxims and Hints on Shooting and Other Matters </td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='center'>THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>FROM THE</span><br /> + +<b>Common-Place-Book</b><br /> + +<span class='small'>OF THE</span><br /> + +<span class='big'>HOUGHTON FISHING CLUB</span><br /> + +<span class='small'>ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED</span><br /> + +<span class='small'>TO HIS</span><br /> + +BROTHER ANGLERS<br /> + +<span class='small'>BY A</span><br /> + +MEMBER OF THE CLUB.</div> + +<div><span style="margin-left: 22em;"><span class="smcap">London</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;"><i>March, 1833.</i></span><br /></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> + +<span class='small'>FOR</span><br /> + +AN ANGLER.</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +"You see the ways the fisherman doth take<br /> +"To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?<br /> +"Behold! how he engageth all his wits,<br /> +"Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets:<br /> +"Yet fish there be, that neither hook nor line,<br /> +"Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine;<br /> +"They must be groped for, and be tickled too,<br /> +"Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do."<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 13.5em;"><span class="smcap">John Bunyan</span></span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>FOR</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='big'>AN ANGLER:</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>BY</span><br /> +<br /> +A BUNGLER.</h2> + +<div class='center'>[Loosely thrown out, in order to provoke contradiction, +and elicit truth from the expert.]<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +I.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Are</span> there any fish in the river to which you +are going?</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />II.</div> + +<p>Having settled the above question in the +affirmative, get some person who knows the +water to show you whereabout the fish usually +lie; and when he shows them to you, do not +show yourself to them.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />III.</div> + +<p>Comparatively coarse fishing will succeed +better when you are not seen by the fish, +than the finest when they see you.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IV.</div> + +<p>Do not imagine that, because a fish does +not instantly dart off on first seeing you, he +is the less aware of your presence; he almost +always on such occasions ceases to feed, and +pays you the compliment of devoting his +whole attention to you, whilst he is preparing +for a start whenever the apprehended danger +becomes sufficiently imminent.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />V.</div> + +<p>By wading when the sun does not shine, +you may walk in the river within eighteen or +twenty yards below a fish, which would be +immediately driven away by your walking on +the bank on either side, though at a greater +distance from him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VI.</div> + +<p>When you are fishing with the natural +May-fly, it is as well to wait for a passing +cloud, as to drive away the fish by putting +your fly to him in the glare of the sunshine, +when he will not take it.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VII.</div> + +<p>If you pass your fly neatly and well three +times over a trout, and he refuses it, do not +wait any longer for him: you may be sure +that he has seen the line of invitation which +you have sent over the water to him, and +does not intend to come.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VIII.</div> + +<p>If your line be nearly <i>taut</i>, as it ought +to be, with little or no gut in the water, a +good fish will always hook himself, on your +gently raising the top of the rod when he has +taken the fly.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 433px;"> +<img src="images/illus-011.png" width="433" height="500" alt=""Whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an expert assistant, furnished," &c. + +To face page 6." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an expert <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'asssitant'">assistant</ins>, furnished," &c. +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 6.</div> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="IX" id="IX"></a>IX.</div> + +<p>If you are above a fish in the stream when +you hook him, get below him as soon as you +can; and remember that if you pull him, but +for an instant, against the stream, he will, if +a heavy fish, break his hold; or if he should +be firmly hooked, you will probably find that +the united strength of the stream and fish is +too much for your skill and tackle.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />X.</div> + +<p>I do not think that a fish has much power +of stopping himself if, immediately on being +hooked, he is moved slowly with the current, +under the attractive influence of your rod +and line. He will soon find that a forced +march of this sort is very fatiguing, and he +may then be brought, by a well-regulated +exercise of gentle violence, to the bank, from +whence he is to be instantly whipt out by an +expert assistant, furnished with a landing-net, +the ring of which ought not to be of a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +less diameter than eighteen inches, the handle +of it being seven feet long.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XI.</div> + +<p>If, after hooking a trout, you allow him to +remain stationary but for a moment, he will +have time to put his helm hard a-port or +a-starboard, and to offer some resistance. +Strong tackle now becomes useful.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XII.</div> + +<p>Bear always in mind that no tackle is +strong enough, unless well handled. A good +fisherman will easily kill a trout of three +pounds with a rod and a line which are not +strong enough to lift a dead weight of one +pound from the floor, and place it on the +table.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIII.</div> + +<p>Remember that, in whipping with the +artificial fly, it must have time, when you +have drawn it out of the water, to make the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +whole circuit, and to be at one time straight +behind you, before it can be driven out +straight before you. If you give it the forward +impulse too soon, you will hear a crack. +Take this as a hint that your fly is gone to +grass.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIV.</div> + +<p>Never throw with a long line when a short +one will answer your purpose. The most +difficult fish to hook is one which is rising at +three-fourths of the utmost distance to which +you can throw. Even when you are at the +extent of your distance, you have a better +chance; because in this case, when you do +reach him, your line will be straight, and, +when you do not, the intermediate failures +will not alarm him.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XV.</div> + +<p>It appears to me that, in whipping with an +artificial fly, there are only two cases in which +a fish taking the fly will infallibly hook himself +without your assistance, viz.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> + +<p>1. When your fly first touches the water +at the end of a straight line.</p> + +<p>2. When you are drawing out your fly for +a new throw.</p> + +<p>In all other cases it is necessary that, in +order to hook him when he has taken the +fly, you should do something with your wrist +which it is not easy to describe.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVI.</div> + +<p>If your line should fall loose and wavy +into the water, it will either frighten away +the fish, or he will take the fly into his mouth +without fastening himself; and when he finds +that it does not answer his purpose, he will +spit it out again, before it has answered yours.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVII.</div> + +<p>Although the question of fishing up or +down the stream is usually settled by the +direction of the wind, you may sometimes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +have the option; and it is, therefore, as well +to say a word or two on both sides.</p> + +<p>1. If, when you are fishing down-stream, +you take a step or two with each successive +throw, your fly is always travelling over new +water, which cannot have been disturbed by +the passing of your line.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />2. When you are fishing up-stream, you +may lose the advantage of raising so many +fish; but, on the other hand, you will have +a better chance of hooking those which rise +at your fly, because the darting forward of a +fish seizing it has a tendency to tighten your +line, and produce the desired effect.</div> + + +<p>3. If you are in the habit of sometimes +catching a fish, there is another great advantage +in fishing up-stream, viz. whilst you +are playing and leading (necessarily down-stream) +the fish which you have hooked, you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +do not alarm the others which are above you, +waiting till their turn comes.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVIII.</div> + +<p>The learned are much divided in opinion +as to the propriety of whipping with two +flies or with one. I am humbly of opinion +that your chance of hooking fish is much +increased by your using two flies; but I +think that, by using only one, you increase +your chance of landing the fish.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIX.</div> + +<p>When you are using two flies, you can +easily find the bob-fly on the top of the +water, and thus be sure that the end-fly is +not far off. When you are using only one +fly, you cannot so easily see where the fly is; +but I think that you can make a better guess +as to where the fish is likely to be after you +have hooked him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> +<div class="figright" style="width: 439px;"> +<img src="images/illus-019.png" width="439" height="500" alt=""You will find it difficult, with all your attractions, to overcome the +strong attachment," &c." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"You will find it difficult, with all your attractions, to overcome the +strong attachment," &c.</span> + +<div class='ref'>To face page 12.</div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />XX.</div> + +<p>Also, when you are using two flies, you +may sometimes catch a fish with one of them, +and a weed growing in the river with the +other. When such a <i>liaison</i> is once formed, +you will find it difficult, with all your attractions, +to overcome the strong attachment of +the fish to your worthless rival the weed.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXI.</div> + +<p>If the weed will not give way in the +awkward juncture above alluded to, you must +proceed to extremities. "Then comes the +tug of war;" and your line is quite as likely +to break between you and the fish, as between +the fish and the weed.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXII.</div> + +<p>When, during the season of the May-fly, +your friends, the gentlemen from London, +say that they "have scarcely seen a fish rise +all day," do not too hastily conclude that the +fish have not been feeding on the fly.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIII.</div> + +<p>The only "rising" which is seen by the +unlearned is the splash which is made by a +fish when he darts from a considerable depth +in the water to catch an occasional fly on the +surface. There is, however, another sort of +"rising," which is better worth the skilful +angler's attention, viz.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIV.</div> + +<p>When a fish is seriously feeding on the +fly, he stations himself at no greater depth +than his own length, and, making his tail the +hinge of his motions, he gently raises his +mouth to the top of the water, and quietly +sucks in the fly attempting to pass over him. +A rising of this sort is not easily seen, but it +is worth looking for; because, although a +fish feeding in this manner will rarely go +many inches on either side for a fly, he will +as rarely refuse to take one which comes +(without any gut in the water) directly to him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXV.</div> + +<p>If your fly (gut unfortunately included) +should swim over a fish without his taking it, +look out well for a darting line of undulation, +which betokens his immediate departure; +and remember, that it is of no use to continue +fishing for him after he is gone.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVI.</div> + +<p>The stations chosen by fish for feeding are +those which are likely to afford them good +sport in catching flies, viz.</p> + +<p>1. The mouths of ditches running into the +river.</p> + +<p>2. The confluence of two branches of a +stream, which has been divided by a patch +of weeds.</p> + +<p>3. That part of a stream which has been +narrowed by two such patches.</p> + +<p>4. Fish are also to be found under the +bank opposite to the wind, where they are +waiting for the flies which are blown against +that bank, and fall into the river.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVII.</div> + +<p>If, during your walks by the river-side, +you have marked any good fish, it is fair to +presume that other persons have marked +them also. Suppose the case of two well-known +fish, one of them (which I will call A.) +lying above a certain bridge, the other (which +I will call B.) lying below the bridge. Suppose +further that you have just caught B., +and that some curious and cunning friend +should say to you in a careless way, "Where +did you take that fine fish?" a finished fisherman +would advise you to tell your inquiring +friend that you had taken your fish just <i>above</i> +the bridge, describing, as the scene of action, +the spot which, in truth, you know to be still +occupied by the other fish, A. Your friend +would then fish no more for A., supposing +that to be the fish which you have caught; +and whilst he innocently resumes his operations +below the bridge, where he falsely imagines<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +B. still to be, A. is left quietly for you, +if you can catch him.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVIII.</div> + +<p>When you see a large fish rising so greedily +in the middle of a sharp stream, that you +feel almost sure of his instantly taking your +May-fly, I would advise you to make an accurate +survey of all obstructions in the immediate +neighbourhood of your feet—of any +ditch which may be close behind you—or of +any narrow plank, amidst high rushes, which +you may shortly have to walk over in a hurry. +If you should hook the fish, a knowledge of +these interesting localities will be very useful +to you.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIX.</div> + +<p>When your water-proof boots are wet +through, make a hole or two near the bottom +of them, in order that the water, which runs +in whilst you are walking in the river, may +run freely out again whilst you are walking<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +on the bank. You will thus avoid an accompaniment +of pumping-music, which is not +agreeable.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXX.</div> + +<p>Never mind what they of the old school +say about "playing him till he is tired." +Much valuable time and many a good fish +may be lost by this antiquated proceeding. +Put him into your basket <i>as soon as you can</i>. +Everything depends on the manner in which +you commence your acquaintance with him. +If you can at first prevail upon him to go +a little way down the stream with you, you +will have no difficulty afterwards in persuading +him to let you have the pleasure of +seeing him at dinner.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXI.</div> + +<p>Do not be afraid of filling your pockets too +full when you go out; you are more likely +to leave something behind you than to take +too much. A man who seldom catches a fish<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +at any other time, usually gets hold of one +(and loses him of course) whilst his attendant +is gone back for something which had been +forgotten.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXII.</div> + +<p>If your attendant is a handy fellow at +landing a fish, let him do it in his own way: +if he is not, try to find a better man, or go +home. Although so much depends upon his +skill, you will rarely derive much comfort +from asking him for his opinion. If you +have had bad sport, and say to him, "Which +way shall we go now?" he will most probably +say, "Where you please, sir." If you ask +him what he thinks of the weather, he is +very likely to say that last week (<i>when you +were in London</i>) it was "famous weather for +fishing;" or he will perhaps say, that he expects +that next week (<i>when you are to be at +home again</i>) it will be very good. I never +knew one of these men who was satisfied +with the present hour.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIII.</div> + +<p>Do not leave off fishing early in the evening +because your friends are tired. After a +bright day, the largest fish are to be caught +by whipping between sunset and dark. Even, +however, in these precious moments, you will +not have good sport if you continue throwing +after you have whipped your fly off. Pay +attention to this; and if you have any doubt +after dusk, you may easily ascertain the point, +by drawing the end of the line quickly +through your hand,—particularly if you do +not wear gloves.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIV.</div> + +<p>No attempt is here made to give directions +as to the best seasons for cutting the woods +which are fittest for the making of rods, or +as to the mode of preparing them; because +the worst rod which is kept for sale at the +present day is probably as good as the best +of the first few dozen which any amateur is +likely to make for himself.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXV.</div> + +<p>Lastly—When you have got hold of a good +fish, which is not very tractable, if you are +married, gentle reader, think of your wife, +who, like the fish, is united to you by very +tender ties, which can only end with her +death, or her going into weeds. If you are +single, the loss of the fish, when you thought +the prize your own, may remind you of some +more serious disappointment.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /> +</div> + +<div> +<i>Rod Cottage, River Side,</i><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><i>31st May, 1829.</i></span><br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/illus-028.png" width="301" height="250" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'><br />POSTSCRIPT.</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I forgot</span> to say, that, if a friend should +invite you to his house, saying that he will +give you "an excellent day's fishing," you +ought not to doubt his kind intention, but +you certainly ought not to feel very sure that +you will have good sport. Provide yourself +for such a visit with everything which you +may want, as if you were going into an uninhabited +country. Above all things, take a +landing-net with you. Your friend's (if he +has one) is probably torn and without a +handle, being a sort of reticulated shovel for +taking fish out of the well of a punt. Take +warning from the following story:—</p> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 427px;"> +<img src="images/illus-032.png" width="427" height="500" alt="The boy exclaiming, "Damn 'un, I miss'd 'un," instantly threw a second brick-bat." title="" /> +<span class="caption">The boy exclaiming, "Damn 'un, I miss'd 'un," instantly threw a second brick-bat. +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 23.</div> +</div> +<p>Mr. Jackson and Mr. Thompson went last +week to the house of Mr. Jenkins, for a few +days' fishing. They were received with the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +utmost kindness and hospitality by Mr. and +Mrs. Jenkins, and on the following morning +after breakfast, the gardener (who was on +that day called the fisherman) was desired to +attend them to the river. Thompson, who +had a landing-net of his own, begged to have +a boy to carry it. Jack was immediately +sent for, and he appeared in <i>top</i> boots, with +a livery hat and waistcoat.</p> + +<p>Arrived at the water-side, Thompson gave +his gnat-basket to the boy, and told him to +go on the other side of the river, and look on +the grass for a few May-flies. Jack said +that he did not exactly know what May-flies +were, and that the river could not be crossed +without going over a bridge a mile off. +Thompson is a patient man, so he began to +fish with his landing-net for a few May-flies, +and after he had necessarily frightened away +many fish, he succeeded in catching six or +seven May-flies.</p> + + + +<p>Working one of them with the blowing-line<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +much to his own satisfaction, and thinking +to extract a compliment from his attendant, +he said, "They do not often fish here +in this way—do they?" "No," said the boy, +"they drags wi' a net; they did zo the day +afore yesterday."</p> + +<p>Our angler, after much patient fishing, +hooked a fine trout; and having brought him +carefully to the bank, he said, "Now, my +lad, don't be in a hurry, but get him out as +soon as you can." Jack ran to the water's +edge, threw down the net, and seizing the +line with both hands, of course broke it immediately.</p> + +<p>Nothing daunted, Thompson now mended +his tackle and went on fishing; and when he +thought, "good easy man," that the very +moment for hooking another trout was arrived, +there was a great splash just above his +fly;—and the boy exclaiming, "Damn un, +I miss'd un," instantly threw a second brick-bat +at a rat which was crossing the river.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mine host, in order to accommodate his +friends, dined early; and when they went +after dinner to enjoy the evening fishing, +they found that the miller had turned off the +water, and that the river was nearly dry,—so +they went back to tea.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 403px;"> +<img src="images/illus-034.png" width="403" height="250" alt="F. R. Lee, Esq., R.A." title="" /> +<span class="caption"><i>F. R. Lee, Esq., R.A.</i></span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> +<h2>MISERIES OF FISHING.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='center'>"<i>Quæque ipse miserrima vidi.</i>"</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> +<h2>MISERIES OF FISHING.</h2> + + +<div class='center'>I.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Making</span> a great improvement in a receipt +which a friend had given you for staining +gut—and finding that you have produced +exactly the colour which you wanted, but +that the dye has made all your bottoms quite +rotten.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />II.</div> + +<p>Suddenly putting up your hand to save +your hat in a high wind, and grasping a +number of artificial flies, which you had +pinned round it, without any intention of +taking hold of more than one at a time.</p> +<div class="figright" style="width: 421px;"> +<img src="images/illus-039.png" width="421" height="500" alt=""And having occasion to regret the decayed state of the hand-rail," &c." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"And having occasion to regret the decayed state of the hand-rail," &c. +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 28.</div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />III.</div> + +<p>Leading a large fish down-stream and +arriving at a ditch, the width of which is +evident, although the depth of it may be a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +matter of some doubt. Having thus to decide +very quickly whether you will lose the +fish and half your tackle, or run the risk of +going up to your neck in mud. Perhaps +both.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IV.</div> + +<p>Feeling rather unsteady whilst you are +walking on a windy day over an old foot-bridge, +and having occasion to regret the +decayed state of the hand-rail, which once +protected the passing fisherman.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />V.</div> + +<p>Fishing for the first time with flies of your +own making—and finding that they are quite +as good as any which you can buy, except +that the hooks are not so firmly tied to the +gut.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VI.</div> + +<p>Taking out with you as your aide-de-camp +an unsophisticated lad from the neighbouring +village, who laughs at you when you miss<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +hooking a fish rising at a fly, and says with +a grin. "You can't vasten 'em as my vather +does."</p> + + + + +<div class='center'><br />VII.</div> + +<p>Making the very throw which you feel +sure will at last enable you to reach a fish +that is rising at some distance—and seeing +the upper half of your rod go into the middle +of the river. When you have towed it +ashore, finding that it has broken off close to +the ferule, which is immoveably fixed in the +lower half of your rod.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VIII.</div> + +<p>Feeling the first cold drop giving notice +to your great toe that in less than two minutes +your boot will be full of water.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IX.</div> + +<p>Going out on a morning so fine that no +man would think of taking his water-proof +cloak with him—and then, before catching<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +any fish, being thoroughly wet through by an +unexpected shower.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />X.</div> + +<p>When you cannot catch any fish—being +told by your attendant of the excellent sport +which your predecessor had on the same spot, +only a few days before.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XI.</div> + +<p>Having brought with you from town a +large assortment of expensive artificial flies—and +being told on showing them to an experienced +native, that "They are certainly very +beautiful, but that none of them are of any +use here."</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XII.</div> + +<p>After trying in vain to reach a trout which +is rising on the opposite side of the river—at +last walking on; and before you have +gone 100 yards, looking back, and seeing +a more skilful friend catch him at the first +throw.—Weight 3 lbs. 2 oz.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 420px;"> +<img src="images/illus-043.png" width="420" height="500" alt=""Looking back, and seeing a more skilful friend catch him at the first throw."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Looking back, and seeing a more skilful friend catch him at the first throw." +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 30.</div> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIII.</div> + +<p>Having stupidly trodden on the top of +your rod—and then finding that the spare +top, which you have brought out with you in +the butt, belongs to the rod which you have +left at home, and will not fit that which you +are using.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIV.</div> + +<p>Having steered safely through some very +dangerous weeds a fish which you consider +to weigh at least 3 lbs., and having brought +him safely to the very edge of the bank,—then +seeing him, when he is all but in the landing-net, +make a plunge, which in a moment renders +all your previous skill of no avail, and +puts it out of your power to verify the accuracy +of your calculations as to his weight.</p> + + + +<div class='center'><br />XV.</div> + +<p>Fishing with the blowing-line when the +wind is so light that your fly is seldom more<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +than two yards from you, or when the wind +is so strong that it always carries your fly up +into the air, before it comes to the spot which +you wish it to swim over.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 433px;"> +<img src="images/illus-047.png" width="433" height="500" alt=""Probing the bottom in front of you with the handle of your landing-net."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Probing the bottom in front of you with the handle of your landing-net." +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 32.</div> +</div> +<div class='center'><br />XVI.</div> + +<p>Wishing to show off before a young friend +whom you have been learnedly instructing in +the mysteries of the art, and finding that you +cannot catch any fish yourself, whilst he (an +inexperienced hand) hooks and lands (by +mere accident of course) a very large one.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVII.</div> + +<p>Attempting to walk across the river in a +new place without knowing exactly whereabouts +certain holes, which you have heard +of, are. Probing the bottom in front of you +with the handle of your landing-net,—and +finding it very soft.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVIII.</div> + +<p>Going some distance for three days' fishing, +on the two first of which there is bright sunshine +and no wind, and then finding that the +third, which opens with "a southerly wind +and a cloudy sky," is the day which a neighbouring +farmer has fixed upon for washing +two hundred sheep on the shallow where you +expected to have the best sport.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIX.</div> + +<p>Being allowed to have one day's fishing in +a stream, the windings of which are so many, +that it would require half a dozen different +winds to enable you to fish the greater part +of it, from the only side to which your leave +extends.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XX.</div> + +<p>Finding, on taking your book out of your +pocket, that the fly at the end of your line is +not the only one by many dozen which you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +have had in the water, whilst you have been +wading rather too deep.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 420px;"> +<img src="images/illus-051.png" width="420" height="500" alt=""You must sit down on the wet grass whilst your attendant pulls them off, +in order," &c." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"You must sit down on the wet grass whilst your attendant pulls them off, +in order," &c. +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 34.</div> +</div> +<div class='center'><br />XXI.</div> + +<p>Wading half an inch deeper than the tops +of your boots, and finding afterwards that +you must carry about with you four or five +quarts in each, or must sit down on the wet +grass whilst your attendant pulls them off, in +order that you may empty them, and try to +pull them on again.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXII.</div> + +<p>Jumping out of bed very early every morning, +during the season of the May-fly, to look +at a weathercock opposite to your window, +and always finding the wind either in the +north or east.</p> + + + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIII.</div> + +<p>Having just hooked a heavy fish, when you +are using the blowing-line, and seeing the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +silk break about two feet above your hand; +then watching the broken end as it travels +quickly through each successive ring, till it +finally leaves the top of your rod, and follows +the fish to the bottom of the river.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIV.</div> + +<p>Receiving a very elegant new rod from +London, and being told by one of the most +skilful of your brother anglers, that it is so +stiff,—and by another, that it is so pliant, that +it is not possible for any man to throw a +fly properly with it.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXV.</div> + +<p>Being obliged to listen to a long story +about the difficulties which one of your +friends had to encounter in landing a very +fine trout which has just been placed on the +table for dinner, when you have no story of +the same sort to tell in return.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figright" style="width: 423px;"> +<img src="images/illus-055.png" width="423" height="500" alt=""Finding that they are all about to be immediately driven away by five-and-twenty cows."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Finding that they are all about to be immediately driven away by five-and-twenty cows." +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 36.</div> +</div> +<div class='center'><br />XXVI.</div> + +<p>Hooking a large trout, and then turning +the handle of your reel the wrong way; thus +producing an effect diametrically opposite to +that of shortening your line, and making the +fish more unmanageable than before.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVII.</div> + +<p>Arriving just before sunset at a shallow, +where the fish are rising beautifully, and +finding that they are all about to be immediately +driven away by five-and-twenty cows, +which are preparing to walk very leisurely +across the river in open files.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVIII.</div> + +<p>Coming to an ugly ditch in your way +across a water-meadow late in the day, when +you are too tired to jump, and being obliged +to walk half a mile in search of a place where +you think you can step over it.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIX.</div> + +<p>Flattering yourself that you had brought +home the largest fish of the day, and then +finding that two of your party have each of +them caught a trout more than half a pound +heavier than <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'your's'">yours</ins>.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXX.</div> + +<p>Finding yourself reduced to the necessity +of talking about the beautiful form and colour +of some trout, which you have caught, being +well aware that in the important particular of +<i>weight</i>, they are much inferior to several of +those taken on the same day by one of your +companions.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXI.</div> + +<p>Telling a long story after dinner, tending +to show (with full particulars of time and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +place) how that, under very difficult circumstances, +and notwithstanding very great skill +on your part, your tackle had been that +morning broken and carried away by a very +large fish; and then having the identical fly, +lost by you on that occasion, returned to you +by one of your party, who found it in the +mouth of a trout, caught by him, about an hour +after your disaster, on the very spot so accurately +described by you—the said very large +fish being, after all, a very small one.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXII.</div> + +<p>Arriving at a friend's house in the country, +one very cold evening in March, and being +told by his keeper that there are a great many +large pike in the water, and that you are sure +of having good sport on the following day; +and then looking out of your bed-room +window the next morning, and seeing two unhappy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +swans dancing an awkward sort of +minuet on the ice, the surface of the lake +having been completely frozen during the +night.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /> +</div> + +<div> +<span class="smcap">London</span>,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>March, 1833.</i></span><br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 308px;"> +<img src="images/illus-059.png" width="308" height="250" alt="Fish" title="" /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/illus-060.png" width="450" height="360" alt="F. R. Lee, Esq., R.A." title="" /> +<span class="caption"><i>F. R. Lee, Esq., R.A.</i></span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MORE MISERIES.</h2> + +<div class='center'>(Continuation of Story from <a href="#Page_24">page 24</a>.)</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> a subsequent occasion our honest anglers +repeated their visit to Mr. Jenkins, who, with +the view of making himself more agreeable +to his guests, had, in the meantime, agreed to +pay an annual rent to the miller, for the exclusive +right of fishing in some water belonging +to the mill, which was said to contain the +largest fish in the river.</p> + +<p>Now, this miller had a son, who, whilst he +followed his father's daily occupation of preparing +matter for the <i>loaves</i>, sometimes thought +of the <i>fishes</i> too; and he was better known in +the neighbourhood for his great skill in fishing, +than for any unusual acquaintance with the +mysteries of grinding. He had frequently +used much argument and entreaty to dissuade +his father from letting the fishery; but the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +prudent old miller thought that £15 per +annum, to be paid by Mr. Jenkins, would be +more profitable to him, than any pleasure +which his son might derive from catching +many fine brace of trout during the season.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 436px;"> +<img src="images/illus-064.png" width="436" height="500" alt=""He now sallied forth, not 'equal to both,' but 'armed for either field.'"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"He now sallied forth, not 'equal to both,' but 'armed for either field.'" +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 43.</div> +</div> + +<p>Such was the state of affairs in this part +of the world, when Mr. Jackson and Mr. +Thompson arrived early one morning, by +special invitation, to make a first trial of their +skill in the new water. The usual conversation +about the state of the weather was +quickly despatched at breakfast. The wind +was, for once, pronounced to be in the right +quarter. It was unanimously agreed that there +could not well be a more favourable day for +fishing, and that, therefore, the gentlemen +ought to lose no time in going down to the +river. Our old friend, Thompson, who, as we +have already seen, was not always very successful +with a fly, had lately, in order that he +might have two strings to his bow<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>, been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +learning another branch of the gentle art, +called "Spinning a minnow;" and he now +sallied forth, not "equal to both," but "armed +for either field," and walked with a confident +step to a celebrated spot below the mill. This +new acquirement had been kept a profound +secret from Jackson, who went out, as usual, +fly-fishing, and proceeded to a part of the +stream above the mill.</p> + +<p>It was not to be expected that the young +miller would work cheerfully at the mill that +morning. He felt that, although he had been +cruelly deprived of the fishery by his father, +he surely had a right to <i>look</i> at the gentlemen +if he pleased; he therefore put on his +dusty hat and walked, in a surly mood, to the +river side,—taking with him, as the companion +of his sorrows, a ragged little boy, who +had often witnessed his exploits with envy +and admiration, and occasionally imitated his +great example in a very humble manner by +fishing for gudgeons in the canal.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p> + +<p>The youth and the boy found Thompson +so busily engaged in arranging his new +spinning-tackle, that he did not perceive that +they had established themselves within a few +yards of him. There he stood upon the bank, +deeply impressed with the value of some +excellent instructions which he had lately +received for his guidance, and fully sensible +of the vast superiority over Jackson which he +now possessed. Having at last settled every +preliminary to his entire satisfaction, he was +just about to cast in his minnow for the first +time, when the miller attracted Thompson's +notice by that peculiar sort of short cough +which is a relief to suppressed insolence, and +acts as a safety-valve to prevent explosion.</p> + +<p>Poor Thompson! He did not feel quite +qualified for a performance of the kind +before a critic so well able to judge, and so +little disposed to admire; but he considered +that it would be <i>infra dig.</i> to appear disconcerted +by the young miller's presence,—so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +he assumed a look of defiance, and manfully +commenced operations.</p> + +<p>After one or two bad throws, and sundry +awkward attempts at improvement, a fine +trout (<i>mirabile dictu!</i>) darted from under +the bank and seized his minnow. "Who cares +for the miller now?" thought Thompson; +but, alas! the happy thought passed through +his mind—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Ere one can say—It lightens."</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'>He unfortunately (vide <a href="#IX">Maxim IX.</a>) held +the fish a little too hard against the stream, +and pulled him so very triumphantly, that +the thrilling sensation of tugging pressure +on the rod suddenly ceased, and the hookless +end of the broken line flew into the +air!!</div> + +<p>At this awful crisis the young miller's +cough became very troublesome, and the boy +coolly called out to him<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>"<i>I say, Jack!—I'll lay a penny that +wouldn't ha' happened if you had had hold +on 'im!!!</i>"</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 422px;"> +<img src="images/illus-069.png" width="422" height="500" alt=""I'll lay a penny that wouldn't ha' happened if you had hold on 'im!!"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"I'll lay a penny that wouldn't ha' happened if you had hold on 'im!!" +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 46.</div> +</div> +<p>Long before Thompson had recovered +from the effects of this sad disaster, Jenkins +came up to him to announce that luncheon +was ready. Overwhelming our poor sufferer +with a torrent of well-meant condolence, he +said—</p> + +<p>"Well, Thompson!</p> + +<p>"What! no sport?</p> + +<p>"That <i>is</i> unlucky!</p> + +<p>"I am very anxious that <i>you</i> should catch +a good fish. <i>Jackson</i> has just caught a +brace of very fine ones!</p> + +<p>"This is exactly the spot where I expected +that you would have the best sport!</p> + + + +<p>"The miller tells me that the largest fish +lie there<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a>, near that broken post under the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +opposite bank. Pray cast your minnow close +to that, and you will be sure to run a fish +almost immediately."</p> + +<p>Jenkins little knew what he was asking. +The aforesaid post was at a formidable distance,—it +could only be reached by a most +skilful hand. Thompson felt by no means +disposed to attempt it, because, although +Jenkins appeared to think that it would be +an easy task for so finished an angler as +Thompson, he himself had no doubt that the +odious miller, who was still looking on, was +of a very different opinion. He therefore +thought that it would be wise to leave the +question undetermined, and not to give a +<i>casting</i> vote on the occasion.</p> + +<p>And now Thompson, turning his back on +the river, walked home arm-in-arm with his +friend Mr. Jenkins, grieving much about the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +fish which he had lost, and perhaps a little +about those which Jackson had caught.</p> + +<p>The brace of very fine trout, said to have +been caught by Mr. Jackson, were exhibited +by him in due form to Mr. Thompson and +the ladies, just before luncheon. Whilst +he was pointing out the beautiful condition +of the fish, without at all underrating their +weight, Miss Smith, who was staying on a +visit with her sister, Mrs. Jenkins, pleasantly +remarked that Mr. Jackson was very <i>lucky</i> +to have caught two such fine fish whilst Mr. +Thompson had not caught any. This led to +an interesting conversation about the caprice +of the fickle goddess, so often alluded to in +the lamentations of an unsuccessful angler. +Thompson took no part in the discussion, and +he did not refer them to the miller or the +little boy for any other explanation<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a> of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +cause of his failure; but he begged that they +would allow him to eat his luncheon, without +waiting for the rest of the party, as he was +anxious to return as soon as possible to the +river, where he expected to have great sport +in the evening.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;"> +<img src="images/illus-074.png" width="425" height="450" alt="Geo. Jones, Esq. R.A. "He begged that they would allow him to eat his luncheon without waiting for the rest of the party."" title="" /> +<span class="caption"><i>Geo. Jones, Esq. R.A.</i> +<br /> +"He begged that they would allow him to eat his luncheon without +waiting for the rest of the party." +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 49.</div> +</div> + +<p>After luncheon, our unfortunate hero did +not catch any fish, and he found that he could +not throw his minnow within several yards +of the far-famed post, even when he was not +annoyed by spectators. He contrived, however, +to get fast hold of another, at a much +less distance from him; in consequence of +which, he was obliged to abandon a second +set of his best minnow tackle (price 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>) +to its fate in the middle of the river.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> +<div class="figleft" style="width: 420px;"> +<img src="images/illus-078.png" width="420" height="500" alt=""His ears were assailed by a loud repetition of the cruel cough."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"His ears were assailed by a loud repetition of the cruel cough." +</span> +<div class='ref'>To face page 51.</div> +</div> + +<p>At the end of <i>his day's sport</i>, Thompson +omitted to use the wise precaution of taking +his rod to pieces<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a>, before leaving the river +side. On his way homewards, in the evening, +he met the little boy, who slily asked him if +he had had good sport <i>since</i>. This brought to +his recollection the fact of his having to pass +through the mill, in order to cross the river; +and the prospect of his being asked a similar +question by the miller was not agreeable. +When he arrived at the mill, all was quiet; and +he, therefore, flattered himself that the miller +was comfortably enjoying his pipe at the ale-house.—Thompson +was now so elated at the +idea of passing through unobserved, that he +quite forgot the exalted state of his rod, until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +he was reminded of it by a sudden jerk which +broke off the top, leaving his third and last set +of tackle, with a brilliant artificial minnow, +sticking fast in a projecting rafter<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a> above +his reach. Hastily shoving the broken joint +(Thompson never swears) into the butt of +his rod, he hoped that he should be able to +conceal all knowledge of this last misfortune. +He, however, felt very unwilling that the +shining little minnow should remain in its +present position, as a glaring proof of his +awkwardness; and it immediately occurred to +him, that a small ladder, which was close at +hand, was a thing exactly suited to the occasion; +but at the very moment when he became +convinced, by actual experiment, that it +was too short for his purpose, his ears were +assailed by a loud repetition of the cruel +cough, and his eyes were met by a killing +glance from those of the miller's son.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p><p>On the following day, Thompson returned, +much out of spirits, to London. On that day, +too, the young miller resumed his duties at +the mill, less out of humour than before. +Very shortly after this the old miller died, +and the son then took the fishery into his +own hands; and, however closely he may +now resemble his late grandfather (who formerly +lived on the River Dee), in caring for +nobody, he never, whilst Thompson lives, will +be able to say "Nobody cares for me."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>"So ends my Tale:" for I fear that the +reader must think that, like Thompson, he +has now had quite enough of "<span class="smcap">The Miseries +of Fishing</span>." I feel, however, assured +that he will forgive me for relating this story, +because, although his attention may be fatigued +by the perusal of it, his eye will be +gratified by the beauty of several new illustrations,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +which I owe to the kindness of my +friends, the distinguished artists, whose names +are printed under their welcome contributions +to my little book.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /> +</div> + +<div> +<i>Whitehall,</i><br /> +<i><span style="margin-left: 1em;">March, 1839.</span></i><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/illus-081.png" width="450" height="286" alt="Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A." title="" /> +<span class="caption"><i>Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A.</i></span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>FOR A</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='big'>CHESS PLAYER.</span></h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p> + +<p>"<i>Lorsque je veux, sans y faire semblant, me livrer +aux méditations d'une douce philosophie, je vais +à la pêche. Ma longue expérience me tient en +garde contre les inconveniens d'une mauvaise pratique; +et je jouis de mon succès, qu'aucun jaloux ne +vient troubler. Ma pêche finie, eh bien! je rentre +dans le mouvement de la vie, je fais ma partie +d'échecs; je triomphe, mon sang circule; je suis +battu, mais je me releve.</i>"—<span class="smcap">Tactique des Recreations.</span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>FOR A</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='big'>CHESS PLAYER.</span></h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus-085.png" width="400" height="400" alt="Two men playing chess" title="" /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br />I.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Win</span> as often as you can, but never make +any display of insulting joy on the occasion. +When you cannot win—lose (though you may +not like it) with good temper.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />II.</div> + +<p>If your adversary, after you have won a +game, wishes to prove that you have done so +in consequence of some fault of his rather +than by your own good play, you need not +enter into much argument on the subject, +whilst he is explaining to the by-standers the +mode by which he might have won the game, +<i>but did not</i>.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />III.</div> + +<p>Nor need you make yourself uneasy if your +adversary should console himself by pointing +out a mode by which you might have won +the game in a shorter and more masterly +manner. Listen patiently to his explanation—it +cannot prove that your way was not good +enough. <i>Tous les chemins sont bons qui +ménent à la victoire.</i></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IV.</div> + +<p>When you are playing with an opponent +whom you feel sure that you can master, do +not insult him by saying that you consider<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +him a stronger player than yourself,—but that +perhaps particular circumstances may prevent +him from playing with his usual force +to-day, &c. &c. Men usually play as well as +they can: they are glad when they win, and +sorry when they lose.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />V.</div> + +<p>Sometimes—when, alas! you have lost the +game—an unmerciful conqueror will insist on +"murdering Pizarro all over again," and +glories in explaining how that your game was +irretrievable after you had given a certain +injudicious check with the queen,<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a> (the consequence +of which <i>he says</i> that he immediately +foresaw,) and that then, by a succession of +very good moves on his part, he won easily. +You must bear all this as well as you can, +although it is certainly not fair to "preach'ee +and flog'ee too."</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> + +<p>VI.</p> + +<p>A good player seldom complains that another +is slow. He is glad to have the opportunity +thus afforded to him of attentively considering +the state of the game. Do not, +therefore, be impatient when it is your adversary's +turn to move. Take as much time as +you require (<i>and no more</i>) when it is your +own turn.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VII.</div> + +<p>If, whilst you are playing, your adversary +will talk about the state of the game, it is +very provoking, but you cannot help it, and +the pieces will give you ample revenge, if +you can avail yourself of their power.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VIII.</div> + +<p>If the by-standers talk, it is still more +annoying: they always claim the merit of +having foreseen every good move which is +made, and they sometimes express great surprise<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +at your not making a particular move; +which, if you had made it, would probably +have led to your speedily losing the game—before +which time they would have walked +away to another table.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IX.</div> + +<p>Almost every moderate player thinks himself +fully qualified to criticise the move by +which a game has been lost.—Although, if +he had himself been in the loser's place, he +would, very probably, have been check-mated +twenty moves sooner than the opportunity occurred +for committing the particular mistake, +which he thinks he should have avoided.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />X.</div> + +<p>Amongst good players, it is considered to +be as much an indispensable condition of the +game, that a piece once touched must be +moved, as that the queen is not allowed to +have the knight's, or a rook the bishop's +move.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XI.</div> + +<p>Some persons, when they are playing with +a stranger who entreats to be allowed to take +back a move, let him do so the first time: +then, almost immediately afterwards, they put +their own queen <i>en prise</i>; and when the +mistake is politely pointed out to them, they +say that <i>they</i> never take back a move, but +that they are ready to begin another game.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XII.</div> + +<p>Do not be alarmed about the state of your +adversary's health, when, after losing two +or three games, he complains of having a bad +head-ache, or of feeling very unwell. If he +should win the next game, you will probably +hear no more of this.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIII.</div> + +<p>Never (if you can avoid it) lose a game to +a person who rarely wins when he plays with +you. If you do so, you may afterwards find +that this one game has been talked of to all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span> +his friends, although he may have forgotten +to mention ninety-nine others which had a +different result. Chess players have a very +retentive memory with regard to the games +which they win.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIV.</div> + +<p>If, therefore, any one should tell you that +on a certain day last week he won a game +from one of your friends, it may be as well +to ask how many other games were played on +the same day.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XV.</div> + +<p>There is no better way of deciding on the +comparative skill of two players than by the +result of a number of games. Be satisfied +with that result, and do not attempt to reason +upon it.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVI.</div> + +<p>Remember the Italian proverb, "Never +make a good move without first looking out +for a better." Even if your adversary should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +leave his queen <i>en prise</i>, do not snap hastily +at it. The queen is a good thing to win, +but the game is a better.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVII.</div> + +<p>Between even, and tolerably good, players +a mere trifle frequently decides the event of +a game; but when you have gained a small +advantage, you must be satisfied with it for +the time. Do not, by attempting too much, +lose that which you have gained. Your object +should be to win the game, and the dullest +way of winning is better for you than the +most brilliant of losing.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVIII.</div> + +<p>If your knowledge of "the books" enables +you to see that a person, with whom you are +playing for the first time, opens his game +badly, do not suppose, as a matter of course, +that you are going to check-mate him in ten +or twelve moves. Many moves called <i>very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +bad</i> are only such if well opposed; and you +can derive but little advantage from them +unless you are well acquainted with the system +of crowding your adversary,—one of the +most difficult parts of the game.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIX.</div> + +<p>Some players have by study acquired +mechanically the art of opening their game +in a style much above their real force; but +when they have exhausted their store of +<i>book-knowledge</i>, they soon fall all to pieces, +and become an easy prey to those who have +genuine talent for the game. Others do not +know how to open their game on scientific +principles, and yet, if they can stagger through +the beginning without decided loss, fight +most nobly when there are but few pieces +and pawns left on the board. All these +varieties of play must be carefully studied by +those who wish to win. It is only talent for +the game, combined with much study and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +great practice, which can make a truly good +player.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XX.</div> + +<p>Although no degree of instruction derived +from "books" will make a good player, +without much practice with all sorts of opponents, +yet, on the other hand, when you hear +a person, who has had great practice, boast +of never having looked into a chess-book, +you may be sure either that he is a bad +player, or that he is not nearly so good a +player as he might become by attentively +studying the laborious works which have +been published on almost every conceivable +opening, by such players as Ercole del Rio, +Ponziani, Philidor, Sarratt, and Lewis.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXI.</div> + +<p>Between fine players, small odds (viz. +pawn, with one, or with two moves) are of +great consequence. Between inferior players<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +they are of none. The value of these odds +consists chiefly in position; and in every +long game between weak players, such an +advantage is gained and lost several times, +without either party being aware of it.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXII.</div> + +<p>Almost all good players (<i>and some others</i>) +have a much higher opinion of their own +strength than it really deserves. One person +feels sure that he is a better player than +some particular opponent, although he cannot +but confess that, for some unaccountable +reason, or other, he does not always win a +majority of games from him. Another attributes +his failure solely to want of attention +to details which he considers hardly to involve +any real genius for the game; and he is +obliged to content himself with boasting of +having certainly, at one time, had much the +best of a game, which he afterwards lost, +<i>only by a mistake</i>. A third thinks that he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> +must be a good player, because he has discovered +almost all the many difficult check-mates +which have been published as problems. +He may be able to do this, and yet +be unable to play a whole game well, it being +much more easy to find out, at your leisure, +the way to do that which you are told beforehand +is practicable, than to decide, in actual +play, whether, or not, it is prudent to make +the attempt.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIII.</div> + +<p>A theoretical amateur, with much real +genius for the game, is often beaten by a +fourth-rate player at a chess club, who has +become from constant practice thoroughly +acquainted with all the technicalities of it, +and quietly builds up a wall for the other +to run his head against. The loser in this +case may <i>perhaps</i> eventually become the +better player of the two; but he is not so at +present.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIV.</div> + +<p>A person sometimes tells you that he played +the other day, for the first time, with Mr. +Such-a-one, (a very celebrated player,) who +won the game, with great difficulty, after a +very hard fight. Your friend probably deceives +himself greatly in supposing this to be +the case. A player who has a reputation to +lose, always plays very cautiously against a +person whose strength he does not yet know: +he runs no risks, and does not attempt to do +more than win the game, which is all that he +undertook to do.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXV.</div> + +<p>When you receive the odds of a piece from +a better player than yourself, remember he +sees everything which you see, and probably +much more. Be very careful how you attack +him. You must act in the early part of the +game entirely on the defensive, or probably<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +you will not live long enough to enjoy the +advantage which has been given you. Even +though you may still have the advantage of +a piece more, when the game is far advanced, +you must not feel too sure of victory. Take +all his pawns quietly, <i>if you can</i>, and see +your way clearly before you attempt to check-mate +him. You will thus perhaps be longer +about it, but winning is very agreeable work.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVI.</div> + +<p>Many persons advise you, when you receive +the odds of a rook, <i>always</i> to make +exchanges as often as you can, in order to +maintain the numerical superiority with which +you began. This is very cunning; but you +will probably find that "<i>Master is Yorkshire +too</i>," and that he will not allow you to +make exchanges early in the game, except +under circumstances which lead you into a +ruinous inferiority of position.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVII.</div> + +<p>You will never improve by playing only +with players of your own strength. In order +to play well, you must toil through the humiliating +task of being frequently beaten by +those who can give you odds. These odds, +when you have fairly mastered them, may be +gradually diminished as your strength increases. +Do not, however, deceive yourself +by imagining, that if you cannot win from +one of the <i>great players</i> when he gives you +the odds of a rook, you would stand a better +chance with the odds of a knight. This is a +very common error. It is true that, when a +knight is given, the attack made upon you is +not so sudden and so violent, as it usually is +when you receive a rook—but your ultimate +defeat is much more certain. If, in the one +case, you are quickly killed, in the other +you will die in lingering torments.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVIII.</div> + +<p>When you hear of a man from the country, +who has beaten every body whom he has +ever played with, do not suppose, as a matter +of course, that he is a truly good player. He +may be only a "Triton of the Minnows." +All his fame depends upon the skill of the +parties with whom he has hitherto contended; +and provincial Philidors seldom prove to be +very good players, when their strength is +fairly measured at the London Chess Club, +particularly such of them as come there with +the reputation of having never been beaten.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIX.</div> + +<p>An elderly gentleman, lately returned from +India, is apt to suppose that his skill has +been much impaired by the change of climate, +or some other cause, when he finds, to his +great surprise, that his style of play does not +produce such an alarming effect in the Chess<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +Clubs of London or Paris, as it used to do at +Rumbarabad.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXX.</div> + +<p>When you can decidedly win, at the odds +of a rook given by a first-rate player, you +will rank among the chosen few. It would +be very difficult to name twenty-five persons +in London to whom Mr. Lewis could not +fairly give these odds, although there are +many hundreds who would be much offended +at its being supposed to be possible that any +one could give them a knight.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXI.</div> + +<p>A first-rate player, who is to give large +odds to a stranger, derives great advantage +from seeing him first play a game, or two, +with other persons. His style of play is +thus shown, and the class of risks which may +be ventured on is nicely calculated. That +which, before, might have been difficult, thus +becomes comparatively easy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXII.</div> + +<p>There is as much difference between playing +a game well, by correspondence, and +playing one well over the board, as there is +between writing a good essay, and making a +good speech.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIII.</div> + +<p>No advantages of person and voice will +enable a man to become a good orator if he +does not understand the grammatical construction +of the language in which he speaks: +nor will the highest degree of ingenuity make +any man a good chess player, unless his preparations +for the exercise of that ingenuity +are made upon the soundest principles of the +game.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIV.</div> + +<p>Every game perfectly played throughout +on both sides would be by its nature drawn. +Since, then, in matches between the most celebrated +players and clubs of the day some of +the games have been won and lost, it seems<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +to follow that there <i>might</i> be better players +than have been hitherto known to exist.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXV.</div> + +<p>Most of the persons who occasionally "play +at Chess" know little more than the moves +and a few of the general rules of the game. +Of those who have had more practice, some +have acquired a partial insight into the endless +variety of the combinations which may +be formed, and their beautiful intricacy:—a +few play moderately well; but, however small +the number of good players may be, it would +be difficult to find any one who, after having +played a few hundred games, would not +think it an imputation on his good sense to +be considered a very bad player;—and this is +the universal feeling, although it is well +known that men of the highest attainments +have studied Chess without great success; +and that the most celebrated players have not +always been men of distinguished talents.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXVI.</div> + +<p>He who after much practice with fine +players remains for a long time without taking +his station amongst them, will find at last that +there is a point which he cannot pass. He +is obliged to confess his incurable inferiority +to players of the higher order, and he must be +content with easy victories over a large majority +of those whom he meets with in society.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus-104.png" width="400" height="377" alt="Not a good loser" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />CONCLUSION.</div> + +<p>Chess holds forth to the philosopher relaxation +from his severer studies,—to the disappointed +man, relief from unavailing regret,—and +to the rich and idle, an inexhaustible +source of amusement and occupation. It has, +however, been frequently urged as an objection +to the study of the game, that no man can +pursue it, with a fair prospect of becoming +a good player, without devoting to it much +time and attention which might be more +beneficially employed.</p> + +<p>Although it may perhaps be true in the +abstract, that even a high degree of skill is +not <i>per se</i> worth the time and trouble which +it must have cost, it should be remembered +that on this "mimic stage" of life much +besides chess may be seen and studied with +advantage. The real character of a man's +mind may, almost always, be known by his +behaviour under the varying circumstances<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> +of this most interesting game. The triumph +of the winner, and the vexation of the loser, +are often coarsely displayed amongst inferior +players; and, although good players very +rarely give way to this degrading weakness, +still, the good breeding of some of them, +towards the end of a difficult match, is not +always quite perfect.</p> + +<p>The temper of the student cannot fail to +derive very material benefit from the severe +discipline to which it will be subjected. +When he begins to play well he will find that +he has learnt to submit patiently to contradiction; +and that he has become convinced of +the necessity of abandoning his most favourite +schemes, whenever he sees that from +a change of circumstances they can be no +longer pursued with safety.—He will have +felt the full value of using caution and circumspection, +when called upon to exercise his +judgment in cases of complicated difficulty, +and he will have acquired the faculty of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +fixing his undivided attention on the business +in which he is engaged.</p> + +<p>If such qualities of the mind are called +forth and strengthened in the pursuit of a +harmless and delightful recreation, the time +cannot have been wholly wasted, although the +professed object of study may have been only +the art of giving <span class="smcap">CHECK-MATE</span>.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /> +</div> + +<div> +<i>Whitehall, March, 1839.</i><br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus-107.png" width="350" height="250" alt="Fishing creel" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>ON</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='big'>SHOOTING</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>AND</span><br /> +<br /> +OTHER MATTERS.</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus-110.png" width="370" height="500" alt="Drawn by the late Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Drawn by the late Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> + +<h2>MAXIMS AND HINTS<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>ON</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='big'>SHOOTING,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'><i>&c. &c.</i></span></h2> + + +<div class='center'><br />I.</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Let</span> the person to whose care a young dog +is intrusted for education be furnished with +an instrument like a short trumpet, which +produces a few harsh and discordant notes; +and whenever it may be necessary to correct +the dog, in order to enforce obedience, let such +correction be accompanied by the noise of this +instrument rather than by "the thundering +voice and threatening mien" usually employed +on such occasions. When the dog's education +has been properly completed under this +system, although you may be comparatively a +stranger to him on first taking him into the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> +field, you will find that by carrying with you +a duplicate of the <i>un</i>musical instrument you +will have his master's voice in your pocket, +and you will be able at once to make a very +commanding impression upon him, by sounding +a few of the harsh and discordant tones +which he has been taught to fear and obey.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />II.</div> + +<p>You must not insist upon its being admitted +without dispute, that the man who +made <i>your</i> gun is the best maker in London. +This town is a very large place, and it contains +a great many gunmakers. You must +also remember that it "stands within the prospect +of belief" that there may be other +persons who think themselves as competent +to select a good gun, and to shoot well with +it afterwards as you are.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />III.</div> + +<p>In like manner, although you may prefer +using one kind of wadding to another, or may<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span> +perhaps like to wear shoes and gaiters rather +than trousers and laced boots, you must not +suppose that every man who takes the liberty +of forming a different opinion from yours on +these subjects is a mere bungler.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IV.</div> + +<p>However steady your pointer may be, +remember that he is but a dog. If you +encourage him to run after one hare because +it has been wounded by yourself, you must +not be angry with him for chasing another +which may be shot at by your friend. Canine +flesh and blood cannot bear this.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />V.</div> + +<p>Although you may be a very agreeable +gentleman, generally speaking, you will +choose an unlucky moment for making yourself +particularly so, if you should on some +fine morning after breakfast volunteer to +accompany two of your friends who are preparing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +to leave the house for a day's partridge-shooting +without any expectation of +being joined by a third person.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VI.</div> + +<p>When you are obliged to walk on the left-hand +side of a man who carries the muzzle +of his gun too low, do not be so very polite as +to take no notice of this dangerous habit. +He will, perhaps, appear quite offended +when you venture to question your perfect +safety. But be that as it may, your position +was so awfully unpleasant whilst you were +constantly stared at by the eyes of a double-barrelled +gun that your friend's looking rather +cross at you is a matter of much less consequence.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VII.</div> + +<p>When a long search amongst high turnips +has been made, at your particular request, +for a bird which you erroneously suppose that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +you have brought down, and which (naturally +enough under such circumstances) cannot be +found, you must not say that your friend's +retriever has a very bad nose, or fancy that +"poor old Trigger, if he had been still alive, +could have easily found the bird."</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />VIII.</div> + +<p>Should a farmer's boy come running to you +with a partridge which he has lately picked +up after seeing it fall in the next field, your +companion in arms will perhaps assure you +that this bird can be no other than that which +<i>he</i> shot at, as you may remember, immediately +after you had both of you passed through +the last hedge, and which he afterwards saw +flying very low, and very badly wounded, +exactly in the direction which the boy has +come from. An <i>enfant trouvé</i> like this seldom +waits long for a father to adopt it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />IX.</div> + +<p>Sometimes towards the end of a fatiguing +day, when you feel like an overloaded gun-brig, +labouring against a heavy sea of turnips, +you may perchance espy a large covey of partridges +in the act of settling near a hedge a +long way before you. Supposing in such +case that your brother sportsman should be +a much younger man than yourself, and yet +should not have also seen these birds, it is +not always quite prudent that you should announce +the fact to him immediately. If you +wish to have a shot at them, you would, perhaps, +do well to say nothing about them till +your weary limbs have borne you unhurried +a little nearer to the hedge in question. The +good old rule of <i>seniores priores</i> is sometimes +reversed in a large turnip-field.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />X.</div> + +<p>In the case of a double shot a gamekeeper +never hesitates an instant in deciding whether<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +the bird was killed by his master's gun or by +another person's, fired at the same moment.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XI.</div> + +<p>When you are making your way through a +thick wood with too large a party, it is better +that you should be scolded by some of your +friends because you trouble them with very +frequent notice of your individual locality, +than that you should be shot by any of them +because you do not.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XII.</div> + +<p>On the day of a great battue, if one of the +party (not you) should shoot much better +than the others, and if this should by +chance be talked of after dinner (as such +matters sometimes are), do not say much +about the very large number of hares and +pheasants killed by you—on some other +occasion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIII.</div> + +<p>When you are shooting in a wood, if +some hungry fox, in pursuit of his prey, +should chance to cross your path, it depends +entirely upon the "custom of the country" +whether you ought to kill him or not. Bob +Short says, in his Rules for Whist, "When +in doubt, win the trick."</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIV.</div> + +<p>Never ask beforehand whether or not you +are to shoot hares in the cover into which you +are going, but never shoot one after you +have been told not to do so.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XV.</div> + +<p>A singular species of optical delusion +often takes place in the case of a man +shooting at a woodcock in a thick cover. +According to the impression said to be made +upon the shooter's eye, the bird appears to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +fall dead more frequently than he can afterwards +be found—so that the truth of this +appearance must never be relied on when +the evidence of the bird himself cannot be +brought forward to support it.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVI.</div> + +<p>On a grand occasion you need not always +trouble yourself to keep an account of the +number of head killed by you, particularly if +you do not dine with the party on that day; +because, in your absence, the total number +brought home may perhaps be accounted for +after dinner, without any reference being +made to the amount of your<a name="FNanchor_G_7" id="FNanchor_G_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_G_7" class="fnanchor">[G]</a> performances.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> + +<p>XVII.</p> + +<p>When you sit down (<i>horresco referens</i>) in +a dentist's chair,<a name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</a> in order to have your teeth +cleaned, and point out to him, with fear and +trembling, one of them which you think must +be drawn;—if he should tell you that the +tooth can be easily stopped, and may still be +of much service to you, do not immediately +thereupon feel quite bold and very comfortable. +After a moment's further inspection +he may, perhaps, add very quietly, in a kind +of whispering soliloquy, "Here are two +others which must be removed."</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XVIII.</div> + +<p>If you should stop, with a tired horse, at +the door of the "King's Head" anywhere, +and should say to the bowing landlord +thereof, that, unless you can find some other +means of pursuing your journey, you shall be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> +obliged to have a chaise immediately, you +must not expect to be told by him that a very +good coach, which is going your way, will +change horses at the "Red Lion," nearly +opposite, in less than ten minutes. Should +this be the real state of the case, he will feel +that he has no time to lose; and therefore, +instantly seizing the handle of the hostler's +bell, and ringing a louder peal than usual, he +will at once show you into a back parlour, for +fear that you should see the coach before a +chaise can be got ready for you.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XIX.</div> + +<p>Should it have been your fate to travel often, +<i>more majorum</i>, on the box of a stage-coach, +more than one coachman has probably told +you a story, two miles long, about some mare +so vicious and unmanageable that she had +been rejected by every other coachman on the +road, and that nobody but himself had ever +been able to drive her, saying at the same<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +time, "She is now, as you see, Sir, as quiet +as a lamb." You must not believe all this, +although it may perhaps be very true that the +mare kicks sometimes, and that the man is +not a bad coachman.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XX.</div> + +<p>Although our friend the coachman is supposed +to have been so very communicative to +you on the last occasion, he may not perhaps be +equally so on all others: for instance, if, when +the roads are very bad, and the coach is heavily +laden, he should, near the end of a difficult +stage, pull up at some turnpike, and enter +into a long talk apparently about a bad shilling +or a lost parcel, he is very likely not to +explain to you and the other passengers that +his real reason for thus stopping is because +his horses are so much distressed that they +would otherwise be scarcely able to reach the +end of their ground. The conference at the +gate is held in order to facilitate the ratification<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +of the treaty for fresh horses to be exchanged +in the next town.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXI.</div> + +<p>On arriving at the place where "the coach +dines," walk to the nearest baker's shop, and +there satisfy your hunger in a wholesome +manner. At the dinner which is prepared +for the passengers it frequently happens that +if there should have been any cock-fighting +in the town lately,<a name="FNanchor_I_9" id="FNanchor_I_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_I_9" class="fnanchor">[I]</a> the winner and the loser +of the last battle appear at the top of the +table as a couple of boiled fowls; and whenever +there is a roast goose at the bottom, it is +probably some old gander, who, after having +lived for many years in the parish, is at last +become so poor that he is obliged to be +"taken into the house."</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'><br />XXII.</div> + +<p>If you have children, who are clever, do +not question them too closely in company. +Supposing, for example, that at the close of +a social meal in the country, you should be +sitting at table with your guests, on the eve +of their departure from your hospitable roof: +if, under these circumstances, some nice little +fellow, who has lately rushed into the room, +and is now busily employed with a bunch of +grapes, should be called upon by you to join +in the general expression of regret that your +friends are to leave you to-morrow, he may +perhaps say, "Yes, papa, we shall have no +grapes after dinner to-morrow."</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIII.</div> + +<p>If you are thought to excel in any particular +game or sport, do not too often lead +to it as a subject of conversation: your superiority, +if real, will be duly felt by all your +acquaintance, and acknowledged by some of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span> +them; and you may be sure that "a word" +in your favour from another person will add +more to your reputation than "a whole history" +from yourself.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIV.</div> + +<p>On seeing a new invention for the first +time, do not instantly suggest a material +alteration of it, as if you felt quite sure that +this sudden thought of yours must be a very +clever one. It may be reasonably supposed +that the inventor did not hastily build up his +work in its present form; and it would, therefore, +be very unkind that you should bring +the whole broadside of your intellectual guns +to bear upon it in a moment. Besides, after +all, it is just possible that the thing may be +better as it is—without your improvement.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXV.</div> + +<p>The great merit of an important discovery +frequently consists in the first application of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +some well-known principle of action to a class +of objects to which it had not before been +applied. When such discovery has been +brought before the public in one instance, +the application of the same principle to other +nearly similar objects requires a much lower +degree of inventive talent. A sub-inventor of +this sort often views the result of his labour +with all the pride of a mother, when he is +only entitled to the praise due to an accoucheur.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVI.</div> + +<p>When your friends congratulate you on +your recovery from the effects of a serious +accident, it is very proper that you should +thank them sincerely for their kindness in so +doing: but it is by no means necessary that +you should give a very detailed description of +all your sufferings, and of every symptom +attending the gradual progress of your recovery; +nor need you explain exactly what was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> +at first said by Mr. Drugger, the apothecary, +and what was afterwards the opinion of Sir +Astley Cooper. You had better not do this; +although some persons think that what the +nurse occasionally said ought not, in a case +like theirs, to be omitted.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVII.</div> + +<p>On the same principle, if you should have +lately been robbed, and should feel disposed to +communicate the particulars of this sad affair, +you really must not begin your account of it +by telling us every thing which you were +dreaming about just before you first heard +the noise of thieves in your house on the +eventful night of the robbery, adding always +in conclusion, by way of appendix to your +copious narrative, a correct list of the articles +stolen. If you do this too often, you must +not be surprised if some of your hearers +should at last be almost tempted to regret +that when you were robbed you were not +murdered also.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXVIII.</div> + +<p>If it should be mentioned in conversation +that a celebrated mare, belonging to Mr. +Swindle, of Newmarket, has lately trotted +sixteen miles within the hour, in harness, do +not think it necessary to recount the wonderful +performances of a famous gig-horse which +you once had.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXIX.</div> + +<p>After having lost several games at billiards, +when you are playing at a gentleman's house, +it is not polite that you should attribute your +failure to the inaccuracies of the table. +These sundry defects of level are less likely +to be complained of by the winner than by +you; and he, therefore, stands less in need of +this caution than you do.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXX.</div> + +<p>When the lord of the manor is showing +the beauties of his house and grounds to you, +and points out a very fine row of trees for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +your particular admiration, make no allusion +to the magnificence of the avenue at Wimpole; +and if he should afterwards show to +you one of his pictures, which he values +highly as the work of some celebrated master, +remember that, although you may have been +told privately, by a good authority, that the +picture is not really what your friend supposes +it to be, you are not called upon to display +your borrowed knowledge as your own, +and to make yourself odious by endeavouring +to convince him that he has been deceived in +the purchase.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXI.</div> + +<p>Do not bestow extravagant praise upon +every article lately bought by you, as if you +considered that it had acquired increased +value from having fallen into the hands of so +distinguished a purchaser. Other persons +will estimate the worth of it rather by its own +merits than by yours.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXII.</div> + +<p>It is quite unnecessary that you should +always, in order to show the extent of your +reading, claim a previous acquaintance with +every expression which may be referred to in +conversation as having been used by some +celebrated author in one of his works. It is +much easier for another person to quote lines +which never were written than it would be +for you to find them.<a name="FNanchor_J_10" id="FNanchor_J_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_J_10" class="fnanchor">[J]</a></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIII.</div> + +<p>Do not consider it to be at all times your +bounden duty to correct every mistake which +may be made in your presence as to a name +or an unimportant date. Some persons are +so extremely sensitive on these points that +they never allow the offender to escape a +summary conviction. However interesting +the conversation may be, they always feel justified +in interrupting it if they can show that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +the anecdote which they have cut short related +to the late General A., and not to his +brother the admiral.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIV.</div> + +<p>If one of your party should be prevailed +upon to sing a comic song for the amusement +of the company, he will of course do it as +well as he can, and it would not be flattering +to him that you should immediately afterwards +talk about the great pleasure which +you formerly derived from hearing the same +song sung by Mathews, or Bannister.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXV.</div> + +<p>Beware of the amiable weakness of repeatedly +telling long stories about your late +father or uncle. They may have been excellent +persons, and their memory may be +deservedly respected by you; but it does not +therefore necessarily follow that a full account +of everything which was said or done by either +of these worthy men on some trivial occasion<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +should be very interesting to other people, +not even to such of your friends as may be +lucky enough not to have heard it before.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXVI.</div> + +<p>If you should have lately suffered any great +reduction of income from causes over which +you had no control, it is better that you +should bear your misfortunes quietly than that +you should be very extensively communicative +to your acquaintance on the subject of your +grievances. If, for instance, you tell them +in confidence that you now have only 600<i>l.</i> +a-year to live upon, such of them as have but +500<i>l.</i> will perhaps think that you still have +at least 100<i>l.</i> more than you ought to have.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXVII.</div> + +<p>Do not think yourself an accomplished +traveller merely because you have visited +places where you <i>might</i> have acquired much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span> +information. Many a man has passed some +time in a foreign town without learning more +about the beauties of its cathedral or the +manners and customs of its inhabitants than +was previously known to others through the +instructive medium of a book and pair of +spectacles at home; and therefore although +you may have really been at Rome, and may +have actually seen with your own eyes both +the Apollo Belvidere and Raphael's Transfiguration, +you must not, on that account only, +consider yourself qualified to take a leading +part in every conversation on subjects connected +with the fine arts.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXVIII.</div> + +<p>Many persons who are possessed of much +information have a tedious and unconnected +way of imparting it. Such men are like +dictionaries, very instructive if opened in the +right place, but rather fatiguing to read +throughout.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XXXIX.</div> + +<p>The foundation of good breeding is the +absence of selfishness. By acting always on +this principle—by showing forbearance and +moderation in argument when you feel sure +that you are right, and a becoming diffidence +when you are in doubt, you will avoid many +of the errors which other men are apt to fall +into.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />XL.</div> + +<p>Artists, medical men, and engineers are +much to be feared by those persons who +are apt to talk a little sometimes on matters +which they do not very well understand. If, +reader, you are, like me, subject to this +infirmity, mind what you are about when any +professional men are present.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +R. P.<br /> +</div> + +<div> +<i>Whitehall, February, 1842.</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'> +<span class='small'>London: Printed by <span class="smcap">William Clowes</span> and <span class="smcap">Sons</span>, Stamford Street</span><br /> +<br /><br /></div> + + + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> It was a long one, when he talked about fishing.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> There the fish did not <i>lie</i>, but the miller did. He +well knew that, since the letting of the fishery, his son +had taken good care that the best of them should be gradually +removed to Billingsgate by a more summary process +than that of rod and line.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> Neither did Mr. Jackson think it necessary to explain +to the ladies, or even to his friend Thompson, that the very +fine fish, about which he had received so many compliments, +had been taken by fixing his landing-net at the +mouth of one of the narrow water-courses, up which they +had worked their way in search of minnows;—a secret +method of ensuring good sport, well known to some few +very cunning anglers, whose motto is +</p> +<div class='center'> +"Unde habeas quærit Nemo, sed oportet habere."—<span class="smcap">Juv.</span><br /> +</div></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> I understand that Thompson has written a long letter, +complaining of my not having given any maxim or hint +on this important point. I beg leave here to apologise for +the omission; and I have no hesitation in advising him, +if he should ever put his rod together again, not to omit +taking it to pieces as soon as he has done fishing.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> Piscium et summâ genus hæsit ulmo.—<span class="smcap">Hor.</span></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> <i>Infandum Regina jubes renovare dolorem.</i></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_G_7" id="Footnote_G_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_G_7"><span class="label">[G]</span></a> Acting on this principle, I was once supposed to have +killed a brace less than nothing, viz., I went out partridge +shooting with two other persons. At the end of the day one +of these said that he had killed twelve brace, and the other +claimed eleven brace. When the birds were afterwards +counted, the number of them was forty-four. I therefore +conclude that the brace which was wanting must have been +considered as my share of the day's sport.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></a> +<span class='poem2'><br /> +"Whose iron scourge and torturing hour<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">The bad <i>extract, and clean</i> the best."</span><br /> +</span></p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_I_9" id="Footnote_I_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_I_9"><span class="label">[I]</span></a> +<span class='poem2'><br /> +"Thus fell two heroes, one the pride of Thrace,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And one the leader of the Epeian race;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Death's sable shade at once o'ercast their eyes:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;"><i>In dish</i>, the vanquish'd and the victor lies."</span><br /> +</span></p><p> +<i>Pope says</i>, "In dust."</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_J_10" id="Footnote_J_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_J_10"><span class="label">[J]</span></a> <i>e. g.</i> Vide quotation, <a href="#Page_56">p. 56.</a></p></div> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> +<p>The original text does not have a table of contents. 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