108 IN MEMORTAM. 



and his sudden and sad " taking off " will be 

 deplored by all who knew him. 



Here and now I am constrained to pay a 

 fond tribute of praise to an honest angler, 

 whose genial and kind face has been lately 

 hidden by the cerecloth of death, and whose 

 form has been lain away in the dust to await 

 the general resurrection at the last day. 

 How often in our piscatorial chat have I seen 

 his eye gleam with pleasure and his face alit 

 with the love of the craft, of which he was 

 so thoroughly the master. 



His was a type and a right noble one 

 of an honest angler's life and love ; and those 

 who knew and loved him the best miss him 

 and mourn him the most sincerely. Quiet, 

 gentle, unobtrusive, like many a pure stream 

 he was wont to love and cast his fly upon, 

 he passed from our sight so suddenly that 

 his loss cannot be fully realized. " Lord (to 

 us), keep his memory green, and may light 

 perpetual shine upon him ! " 



