138 LIVING CREATURES. 



a brook-trout is "to cast a fly gracefully, so that it will 

 fall in the right place like a snow-flake or a winged in- 

 sect," and when he is hooked, to land him. 



Says the good Isaak Walton, " God never did make 

 a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling." 

 We all need, like Simon Peter, to go a fishing old 

 and young, girls and boys. Another ' ' brother of the 

 angle " says, ' ' Sometimes the parents take the children 

 a fishing. Whenever they do, they should supply 

 them with a light bamboo rod, and attach at a joint 

 one third from the top end a fine silk or linen line; 

 then affix a float according to the depth of the water, 

 so that the bait will sink within six inches of the bot- 

 tom, and a foot above the hook fasten to the line from 

 one to three split shot. 



"Let the hook be of the minnow size, and let the 

 bait, dug the day previous and laid in moss or grass 

 over night, merely cover the point of the hook. Never 

 bait with the head of a worm ; always break that off 

 and throw it in the water." 



" I love to see the man of care 



Take pleasure in a toy ; 

 I love to see him row or ride, 



And tread the grass with joy, 

 Or throw the circling salmon fly 

 . As lusty as a boy. 



" The road of life is hard enough, 



Bestrewn with slag and thorn ; 

 I would not mock the simplest joy 



That makes it less forlorn, 

 But fill its evening path with flowers 



As fresh as those of morn." 



