APOLOGY FOR ANGLERS. 



JV1.ANY people speak of Angling as a cruel and 

 reprehensible amusement, and feelingly describe 

 the sufferings and torture endured by the harmless 

 and unoffending fish, when on the angler's hook. 

 I certainly am ready to give those persons every 

 credit for their humanity, and the purity of their 

 motives, but diifer from them on the subject. 

 I am satisfied that the angle may be used without 

 offence to God or Man, (provided the angler, on 

 these occasions, does not neglect his duty as a 

 member of society, in the relative situations of a 

 father, husband, son, or servant) which opinion 

 I shall endeavour briefly to justify by a reference 



