ANGLEES' EVENINGS. 



"LET PATIEXCE HA YE HEE PEEFECT 



BY COLONEL JOHN I. MAWSON, PRESIDENT. 



F, in the fiftieth anghng year of a Waltonian (the 

 writer of these hnes), the gentle word Patience 

 has lost none of its true meaning, and influence 

 upon his mind and actions ; if, through his many- 

 struggles, angling for the good opinion of his fellow-men, 

 and for a position respected by his friends and acquaint- 

 ances, he has ever found that word to have been an 

 unfailing mentor and invincible auxiliary, can he act 

 more honestly, and, as it were, more gratefully, than by 

 acknowledging the friend to whom he owes so much, 

 and without whose continual presence his exertions 

 might have been fruitless ? 

 Patience is that friend. 



Not content with the exercise of her own great 

 qualities, she enlists, for the benefit of those with whom 

 she dwells, the aid of her partner, Perseverance, equal 



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