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The favourable manner in which this little volume has been received by many who never in their lives cast a fly, encourages the hope that it contains something besides hints on the art of ingeniously torment ing, and that the plea for the existence of many remains Of an Older tongue in the rural districts of our happy land, may invite the attention and awaken the sym pathy Of those who, in the language of the learned Camden, laugh their great grandf'athers' English.
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