532 APPENDIX. 



A WORD IN CONCLUSION. 



And now, brethren of the angle students in fish-culture - 

 men anxious to develop American fisheries and establish ef- 

 fective game-laws farewell. If true anglers, you are sure to 

 be gentle ; and as the truly gentle are always virtuous, you 

 must be happy. But the best friends must part. 



I have endeavored to throw together some pleas in favor 

 of the "gentle craft," and to hint at the importance of water- 

 farming. If my mite, contributed to the general stock for 

 the promotion of rational enjoyment and useful occupation, 

 shall be found worthy of those readers whom it is my pleas- 

 ure to honor, it will be a source of gratification to know that 

 my labors have not been in vain. 



Let neither prosperity nor adversity deaden "the fresh 

 feelino 1 after Nature" which the use of the rod and reel al- 



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ways heightens or confers. Whether overladen with good 

 fortune or suffering under the shocks of adversity, forget not 

 to take the magic wand and repair to the murmuring waters. 

 " The music of those gentle moralists will steal into your 

 heart ;" and, while invigorating physical energy, your souls 

 will be charmed, and your minds soothed and tempered by 

 the music of birds, the sights of nature, and the sounds of in- 

 ferior animals above, around, and beneath the enlivening 

 waters. 



With rosy dreams and bright streams, breezy morns and 

 mellow skies, a light heart and a clear conscience, may "God 

 speed ye well" 



