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Trout are there, or stop at the mouths of some of the cool 

 brooks, where they collect as the summer advances, you have 

 only to throw your flies over them, and there is no preventing 

 their hitching on, and then a man who catches a basket full 

 may be an angler, or a mere fisherman. 



Joe. Why what difference can there be between an angler 

 and a fisherman ? 



Nes. Difference ! That is exactly the question somebody 

 once asked Dr. Bethune. The Doctor was buying some 

 tackle at Conroy's, when one of his friends dropped in. 

 " What, are you a fisherman ?" said the good man, in surprise. 

 " No, I am an angler," replied the Doctor. " Well, what is 

 the difference ?" asked the querist. The Doctor referred him 

 to Mr. Conroy (so goes the story) for an explanation. "Why," 

 said the great tackleman, delicately lifting between his thumb 

 and forefinger the two dollar note that the Doctor had laid 

 on the counter, and dropping it into the till, as if it would 

 contaminate him — " An angler. Sir, uses the finest tackle, and 

 catches his fish scientifically — Trout for instance — with the 

 artificial fly, and he is mostly a quiet, well-behaved gentle- 

 man. A fisherman. Sir, uses any kind of 'ooks and lines, 

 and catches them any way, so he gets them it's all one to 'im, 

 and he is generally a noisy fellah. Sir, something like a 

 gunner." The man smiled, and looked at the Doctor inquir- 

 ingly, to see if he endorsed the distinction drawn by Mr. 

 Conroy. The Doctor, it is said, nodded his head affirmatively, 

 pocketed his tackle, and laughing, walked out of the store. 

 So you see I have the authority of two very distinguished 

 gentlemen for the difference I claim between an angler and a 

 fisherman. 



Joe. Speaking of distinguished gentlemen, who is Mr. 

 Jack Dade that talks about " pi-ignant grief?" Is he the man 

 who inquired " who is the Mary McDan'el that the minister 

 alluded to so often in his sermon?" 



