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him, and at the next instant our thoughts instinctively 

 turn to Dr. Robert T. Morris, who wields a pen as 

 keen, swift, and sure as his scalpel, when he isn't 

 wielding the latter, growing nuts, flora- or fauna- 

 izing, or angling for salmon. As for Andrew Car- 

 negie, the noted financier and philanthropist, when 

 at the threshold of his seventies, upon returning from 

 a brief vacation, he is quoted as having diverted an 

 interviewer who sought to draw him out concerning 

 a recent steel operation of magnitude, by exclaiming: 

 ' What is a matter of a few-million dollars' profit 

 compared with landing a ten-pound pickerel!" 

 When in his eighties, on July yth, 1917, angling in 

 Lake Mahkeenac near Lenox, Mass., he caught two 

 black bass, thirty-four perch, and ten sunfish, in two- 

 hours' time, declaring he never enjoyed better sport 

 on his favorite loch in Scotland; and he was fishing 

 in these same waters within a few days of his death, 

 in the Summer of 1919. 



The compilation of such a list of memorable men, 

 of great eminence and learning, who likewise were 

 great lovers and devotees of angling, has been pos- 

 sible at almost any period in the world's history. 

 From a famous reference in Father " Iz. Wa." we 

 will mention " Dr. Nowel, sometimes Dean of S. 

 Paul's in London (in which Church his Monument 

 stands yet undefaced) a man that in the Reforma- 

 tion of Queen Elizabeth was so noted for his meek 

 spirit, deep Learning, Prudence and Piety, that the 



