The Grayling 



the sunlight sparkling like a gem and glit- 

 tering like a crystal ! 



Ah ! what a happy contrast to the gloomy 

 cell and breviary it must have been to those 

 rigid and frigid celibates to view the ever- 

 changing tints and the reflected glory of the 

 " lady of the streams " after she had co- 

 quettishly responded to their lures ! 



But let us return from the musty ages of The Warning 

 the past, and the hoary fathers — those wise 

 conservators of their beloved fish — to the 

 present day, with the sad vanishing of the 

 Michigan grayling as a solemn warning. 

 Let us, then, guard and preserve this beau- 

 tiful creature that has come down to us 

 through the centuries, hallowed by the jeal- 

 ous care of the good fathers of yore, so 

 that the toiler in these stirring times may, 

 if he will, forsake the busy marts, the ofiice 

 or workshop, for a period, be it ever so 

 brief, and journey even a thousand miles to 

 enjoy — as the monks of old — -the catching 

 of a grayling. 



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