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The Atturican Ainrlcr 



other fellows along, and that the other fellows 

 are more attractive to the fellows under the 

 water. Then the patience of good men may 

 give out, and words bitter and seething may be 

 thrown from lips constitutionally calm. 



Anybody in the fishing line can be pleasant in 

 a company of similar searches of the water as 

 long as he gets his fair share of the plunder ; 

 but when he doesn't, then look out for storms 

 and comminations. Not the least queer trait 

 in this queer critter, man and fisherman, is his 

 implicit belief than when he catches fish he 

 triumphs on account of his skill ; if the other 

 fellow catches them while his own line is not 

 pulled, 'tis b}^ sheer luck, amounting almost to 

 incapacity. 



Still, the world, which might have made sonae 

 shift to do without fish, could never have con- 

 tinued comfortably without fishing. — 'T he 

 Sun. 



camp-fire or yacht, and am as willing and 

 eager to do my share of the chores as ever." 



As Anglers Grow Old. 



As the years creep upward to sixty and then 

 speed rapidly down grade, ths tras angler, o 

 all other men, grows older with less of discom 

 fort or dispondence. He has, first of all, the 

 sustaining joys of delightful angling reminis- 

 cences ; a seat in the stern sheets with rod in 

 hand is yet within his limits, and he enjoys an 

 outing even when his feeble limbs have to be 

 lifted across the gunnels. Here is what an old 

 Waltonian T. S. Morell, " Old Izaak," of New- 

 ark, N. J., wrote us only a few weeks ago : 



" Mv DEAR FRIEND H ARRIS ; I wish I was go- 

 ing with you on your trip to the Pacific coast. 

 I hope you will have good weather and good 

 company. These two are essentials to enjoy- 

 ment in a fishing trip. We old vets have 

 learned to choose our companions with circum- 

 spection. How often do we see a party made 

 miserable by one who is fault-finding and over- 

 selfish. That's why we prize our old fishing 

 companions, well tried under all conditions of 

 comfort and discomfort. My old companions 

 have one by one left me, and I sometimes feel 

 lonesome and sad while casting my line with 

 newer and more youthful companions. 



" The love of angling is still my chief hobby, 

 btit I am obliged to forego the wading of the 

 brook and the long jaunts into the wilderness. 

 Age and its accompanyin ^ feebleness will no 

 longer permit me to rough it or encounter its 

 fatigues. In all other respects I am still a boy ; 

 can enjoy a joke or a well-told story ; can 

 laugh as heartily over the oft-told yarns of the 



KRED. GILliEKT. 



The Age of Fish. 



The age of fish is almost unlimited. Prof. 

 Baird devoted a great deal of time to the 

 question as to the length of life of fish, and he 

 found that the ordinary carp, if not interfered 

 with, would live 500 3'ears. In his writings on 

 the subject he stated that there is now living 

 in the Royal Aquarium, in Russia, several carp 

 that are known to be over 600 years old, and 

 that he had ascertained in a number of cases, 

 that whales live to be over 200 years old. A 

 gentleman in Baltimore has had an ordinary 

 goldfish for sixty-three years, and his father 

 informed him that he had purchased it over 

 forty years before it came into his possession. 



