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11 Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men,' 

 And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, 

 And mingle among the jostling crowd, 

 Where the sounds of strife are subtle and loud — 

 I often come to this quiet place, 

 I breathe the airs that ruffle thy face, 

 And gaze upon thee in silent dream, 

 For in thy lonely and lovely stream 

 An image of that calm life appears 

 That won my heart in my greener years." 



David says, " I will lift up mine eyes unto the 

 hills from whence cometh my strength." 



The child, the business man, the teacher, the 

 housekeeper, the writer, the minister, everybody 

 seeks inspiration from nature, everybody is a 

 naturalist, or a student of nature in spite of him- 

 self. The fisherman and the sportsman are mem- 

 bers of one branch of the many that form the 

 great company which we style " everybody." 



May fishermen and sportsmen " confess and for- 

 sake " their cruelty ; may they get their out-of- 

 door inspiration, and their collection of fish and 

 game chiefly by means of the camera and not by 

 rod and gun. When his followers go out with 

 their nerves stretched to the breaking point, and 

 their shoulders bowed beneath the load that 

 civilized life heaps upon them, until they ache and 

 sting and throb with the pain of such living, may 



