The Days of a Man 1:1910 



accounts of the numerous species, with drawings of 

 most of them and especially fine colored plates of 

 several, these last the work of Charles B. Hudson, 

 that most skillful of fish painters. 

 A most Some years before, however, we had prepared for 



useful Doubleday, Page & Co. the manuscript of our 

 volume '* American Food and Game Fishes," a large and 

 finely illustrated compendium of the things in- 

 telligent anglers and fishermen ought to know about 

 individual fishes and their life histories. This work 

 was received with great favor by those for whom it 

 was written, and has met with a larger sale than any 

 other with which I have been connected. 



In connection with the fishery work I became 

 acquainted with the one indispensable man at Wash- 

 Adee ington, Alvey A. Adee, Assistant Secretary of State. 

 A quiet, unobtrusive figure who fits so perfectly 

 into his place that in all the merry-go-round of poli- 

 tics no one ever tried to crowd him out, he knows 

 exactly how to word every state paper, whether of 

 condolence, congratulation, or defiance, and never 

 fails to sound the correct note. But talk to him of 

 politics, national or international, and his useful 

 selective deafness comes finely into play. He will 

 then discourse by the hour and feelingly on the 

 charms of cycling in rural France, his own delightful 

 experiences in Touraine or Picardy furnishing the 

 proper background. 



While still occupied with fishery matters, I took 

 Christin to Boston to complete our records. There I 

 was also served for a short time by a young man from 

 the World Peace Foundation (treated later), a 

 youth of rather quaint inexperience. Christin 



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