Favorite Fish ^ Fishing 



THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME 

 FISH OF THE PEOPLE 



THESE be parlous times in angling. Parious Times 

 When William King, In the seven- '"^ ^"s:iing 

 teenth century, with as much prophecy as 

 humor, wrote: 



"His hook he baited with a dragon's tail 

 And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale, ' ' 



he bullded better than he knew. And if 

 Job had lived In the twentieth century, the 

 query: " Canst thou draw out Leviathan 

 with an hook? " would be answered In the 

 affirmative; also, It would be demon- 

 strated that " He maketh the deep to boil 

 like a pot," at Fort Myers and Catallna. 



The shades of Walton and Cotton, of 

 Sir Humphrey Davy and " Christopher 



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