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the exhortation of their President, says : " Brothers of 

 the Angle, one injunction I lay upon }'ou — Let brotherly 

 love continue." 



It should also dwell in the minds of meditative men 

 (and the same Walton says " Such be fishermen ") that 

 the man who wrote the great precept at the head of 

 these lines, was a fisherman, and that, being such, he 

 had, of a surety, been subject to many disappointments ; 

 doubtless he well understood his own exhortation. 



Fishermen, above all others, have need to exercise 

 patience and perseverance ; for such is necessary, not 

 only in their business callings, but especially in the 

 pursuit of their pleasure ; without such exercise they 

 would simply be as other men, who may be without 

 self-control, hasty in^temper, and unstable ; and as such 

 they shall not excel in the practice of their art. And 

 let all consider the great and noble tone created in the 

 mind by the practice of these virtues in the art of fishing. 

 Sorely tempted to despond art thou, oh fisherman ! how 

 often inclined to rebel against the loved partner of thy 

 bosom, when, returning weary and disappointed with 

 non-success, and sorely puzzled thereby, thou seekest to 

 be relieved, on floor of stone, of thy heavy boots, and 

 dost find, instead of help, the flat and hollow-beaten 

 iron, on fender laid before thy very eyes, with ostentation 

 cruel. Patience and Love! now for your boasted virtue ! 



A smile, and then another, and then But some of 



ye are bachelors !— Well, then the hollow-beaten iron 

 doth vanish, and with slippers on, and comforts in, the 

 friend of patience rests, — with eyes on blazing coal he 



