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in the urgent calls of self-interest, the chimeras 

 of ambition, or the gaieties of dissipation, may 

 yet be placed under happier and more improving 

 influences, and may gradually acquire a taste 

 for the beauties of the external world around 

 them. Such a contemplative and rational sport 

 as angling is well-fitted to this desirable end. 

 The pleasures which it yields can cost those who 

 practise it no anxiety, nor rob them of any 

 virtuous sentiments or feelings. They can be 

 attained without difficulty, and enjoyed without 

 envy. It is, in fact, one of those sports every 

 way in strict harmony with Nature's sublimest 

 lessons and teachings. 



