CHAPTER IV. 



AN UNFORTUNATE DAY. 



UT still a happy one, as they all 

 were, and as such days ever will be 

 to those who enjoy the sportsman's 

 life : would there were more that do ! 

 And there will be ; for I believe, as 

 a people we are growing more and 

 more to appreciate this' recreation, its benefit to the 

 health, its widening of our sphere of vision. Grad- 

 ually will our business-men be attracted more to 

 the haunts of nature, and away from the dissipations 

 of the conventional watering-places. Also the field 

 of the angler and the hunter will be enlarged, the 

 protection and propagation of fish and game in 

 streams and forests will do much to encourage 

 these manly sports, fishing will be found nearer 

 home, and, the taste once cultivated, more distant 

 waters and less frequented localities will be sought 

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