The origin of the silver eel : with remarks on bait & fly fishing / by David Cairncross.

Abstract

I was reared in one of the rural districts of Scotland, near the mouth of the Tay. Here education was small in quantity and inferior in quality ; little of it came my way, and what did come was very elementary indeed, English grammar and the art of composition being entirely excluded. Quietly, it was the opinion of many of the elder pupils that the teacher should have been at school a little longer himself. These facts will in some measure prepare my reader to excuse the style of my simple treatise; also, I may say what of it I possess was formed in the hurried moments of an engi-B