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FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



SECTION SECOND. 



ANGLING FOR CHILDREN. 



" Come when the leaf comes, angle with me, 

 Come when the bee comes crossing the lea ; 

 Come with the wild flowers, 

 Come with the mild showers, 

 Come when the singing bird calleth for thee !" 



STODDART. 



TRANGE ! I sometimes involun- 

 tarily ejaculate when I see 

 people economize the necessa- 

 ries of life in order to be able 

 to support a carriage and dress 

 the family fancifully, to take 

 them on a drive in the country 

 over dusty roads as an airing 

 and exercise for the promotion 

 of health. 



Of course, exercise in the 

 open air is necessary for the 

 preservation of good health; 

 and a residence in a city where 

 the only breathing-places are 

 its parks, or in the few country 

 places which are remote from 

 waters that offer the recreation 

 of angling, there is an excuse 

 for the next means in the sim- 

 ple catalogue for promoting 

 and preserving health, which is 

 driving or riding on horseback. 

 But in our country of broad 

 acres and free fishings, every 

 parent should teach his children to angle. The sport, which 

 is not laborious, soon renders the young student so ardent in 

 its pursuit that he will get sufficient exercise, while his mind 



