8 * Fishcraft 



pools, in the great excitement of the 

 sport, may, if heeded, prevent an in- 

 voluntary plunge of perhaps serious 

 consequence. Experience is the real 

 teacher, and the errors caused by boy- 

 ish zeal are overcome by degrees ; yet 

 the calmer achievements of cool cal- 

 culation are not, after all, equal to the 

 first success, followed, perhaps, by the 

 very first home run in the boy's sport- 

 loving career. 



If fortune favors the beginner so 

 greatly that he can take his primary 

 lessons along a trout stream, the de- 

 velopment is, of course, more rapid 

 and the joy of learning far beyond 

 that of a continuous early course in 

 catching other small fishes of the 

 brook the little rill being the natu- 

 ral kindergarten for fishers lake 

 and river fishing to follow later, on the 

 principle of safety first. The presence 

 of a parent as "guide, counselor and 

 friend," is desirable, in order to pre- 

 vent serious accident where deep 

 pools exist, and fortified first by the 

 advice, then rewarded when success- 

 ful by the approval of an elder angler, 



