


Kee SOL TR Le 
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From Railroad Bridge at Shortsville, Looking North. 
each other a peculiar friendship, much 
akin to the Divine Brotherhood, that 
delights in prosperity, does not wilt 
under the scorching rays of criticism, 
nor shrivel under the fierce blasts of ad- 
versity.- ‘There seems to be certainly 
something in angling that tends to pro- 
duce a gentleness of spirit and a pure 
sincerity of mind. 
If I may add yet a word to the wise 
I would say; days of delightful outing 
await you all; take them when they 
come. The stream adown which you 
have this evening accompanied me on 
the wings of your imagination, still 
flows with its rippling music and delight- 
ful windings, between flower-strewn 
banks, where graceful elms and sturdy 
oaks cast their cooling shade, when the 
summer south-wind laps up the moisture 
from the parched earth. The silver- 
blue chubs and gamey bass still sport 
in the ripples. or seek the deep pools, 
and will come to your creel if you only 
woo them with a lure to their liking. 
Mother Earth, in her vestments of 
green, and her daughter, the blithe god- 
dess of the stream, with necklace of 
pearls, will be there to welcome you 
with their most cordial greeting, and 
make you feelat home in the Garden of 
the Gods. Having taken hold of the 
outstretched hands, looked up into the 
face, and drank of the well spring of 
Nature, the mind will reach for and de- 
velop upon higher planes of literary 
taste, and the pages of the Great Book 
flash with deeper interest than the novel 
or the romance. The swift running 
stream will teach you lessons in life, 
the birds will wake music in your soul, 
the flowers will kindle a sense of the 
beautiful in your bosom, the trees will 
lead you by the hand through the leaf- 
curtained path openings of forest sanc- 
tuaries, to look upward through their 
branching heights, where the pure blue’ 
sky will bear you aloft on wings of rev- 
erential thought to the abode of the 
Great Eternal. 
