Fishing and Fishermen 



What Mashpee Waters Did for 

 Webster 



Daniel Webster, too, was a fisher- 

 man — always in good and regular 

 standing. In marshaling the proof 

 which his great life furnishes of the 

 beneficence of the fishing propensity, 

 I approach the task with a feeling of 

 awe quite natural to one who has slept 

 in the room occupied by the great Ex- 

 pounder during his fishing campaigns 

 on Cape Cod and along the shores 

 of Mashpee Pond and its adjacent 

 streams. This distinguished member 

 of our fraternity was an industrious 

 and attentive fisherman. He was, be- 

 sides, a wonderful orator — and large- 

 ly so because he was a fisherman. He 

 himself has confessed to the aid he re- 

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