TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING. 99 



Knowing that vice too frequently springs np 

 where cheerful recreations are forbidden, I hold 

 it to be the duty of parents, to encourage the 

 innocent amusements of their children. 



The boy, who has been too severely curbed 

 by the injudicious father, I have seen, in after life, 

 a sullen, morose, deceitful man ; his pleasures 

 have been sought by stealth ; falshood has been 

 practised, to evade the censure of those who 

 should have encouraged his youthful pastimes. 

 Vice, perchance has been courted, because it 

 lurks in darkness and obsurity, beyond the reach 

 of the parent's eye, whose unwise command has 

 forbid the joyous pursuits so congenial to the 

 unclouded days of youth. 



I have also written for the guidance of those of 

 maturer age ; who, fatigued with the drudgery of 

 business, or worn by the anxiety of a profession, 

 seek some recreation, which may recruit their 

 strength and invigorate their minds, rendering 

 them more fitted for the wonted task, and more 



