OUTDOORS 



preferring them to the more generally es- 

 teemed black bass. They should be rolled in 

 cornmeal and fried. When they are rather 

 small, if fried crisply they can be taken in the 

 fingers and eaten bones, fins, and tails 

 everything but heads with a relish. At the 

 ordinary camp, where a change of diet from 

 canned goods is a source of great delight, a 

 skilful pan-fisherman is looked up to with 

 something bordering on reverence. He it is 

 who leads the campers out of the wilderness 

 of baked beans with tabasco sauce and canned 

 buckwheat-cakes. 



Pan-fishing is the true Waltonian style of 

 angling, minus the charm of absolute quiet, 

 the repose " which marks the caste of Vere 

 de-Vere." This infraction of silence is fur- 

 nished by the lady who is doing the fishing. 

 Do not wince if she thinks that a passing 

 kingfisher is a jaybird, or that a turtle's head 

 bobbing up a few yards away is a snake. 

 Leave her to those broad generalizations of 

 outdoors which make up in enthusiasm what 

 they lack in accuracy. And be very proud 

 and glad to think that she has this sense of 

 fresh enjoyment in the sport that you once 

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