Excerpt from The Song of the Reel Hark to the music of the reel We listen with devotion; There's something in that circling wheel That stirs the heart's emotion Songs and Ballads of Sport. What exquisite thrills the harsh battle-song of the reel sends through the frame of the angler Every nerve becomes tense, every muscle tightens, at the sound of the shrill, discordant music. It rings with a note of coming triumph, and of the realised joy of strife: the angler has overcome all preliminary difficulties, and at last is at grips with his fish One of the supreme moments of an angler's day has come to him - a moment of glorious life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.