The Mayor of Wind-Gap And Canvassing Author:John Banim General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: Duffy Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no... more » illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES TO THE MAYOR OF WIND-GAP. Note, Chap. 1, p. 8. NOTE FOB THE BEHOOF OF FOLLOWEBS OF OLD ISAAC WALTON. I will commence'my notes to the '' Mayor of Wind-gap," with a gossip for anglers. " A Wrinkle," as it is called in sportsman's phrase. Those not of the brotherhood will, doubtless, regard this note as little worth ; the followers of the " gentle craft," will, however, snatch at a hint, whenever offered. So to my "brothers of the angle" I dedicate my " wrinkle." On the banks of the "crystal Nore," the " water without'mud," be it borne in mind, Maurteen Maher, the Mayor of Wind-gap, first made acquaintance with the readers of the foregoing tale, whfle engaged angling for trout. Appended to his angling line, and technically named his '' tail fly," was the imitation of a certain insect, known to local anglers, as the '' green drake ;" with this he had beguiled into his pannier the five pound fish unscientifically described by him as a " sieve-maker." The uninitiated may probably suppose that because Maurteen Maher named his " tail fly" a "green drake," that of a verity he had enticed the sieve-maker from the water, by the agency of a bonafide drake of a " green colour ;" but if the general reader care to look on with me, while Maurteen fabricates his " green drake," his misapprehension will be disabused. On the evening previous to his encounter with George Blundell and Annie Kennedy, the Mayor of Wind-ga...« less