8 The Angler's Secret 



The pleasant natural condition of the 

 gameland, the uncertainty in the pursuit, 

 and the interest and excitement in the 

 anticipation and realization of the chase 

 itself all tending to make health and 

 manhood are what render angling and 

 field sports so charming to the chivalric 

 man not the death of the game. This 

 part of the chase is the sad part to the 

 real sportsman, though his execution of 

 the animal is far more humane than the 

 methods employed by the chicken killer, 

 the market butcher, and the net fisher- 

 man. 



There are four kinds of fishermen be- 

 sides the man who catches fish as a trade. 

 One, the gentle and practical angler; an- 

 other, the hand-liner who scoffs at correct 

 angling; another, the insincere man of 

 limited experience, who, though he affects 

 proper methods and tools, judges his sport 

 by the size of his creel; the fourth, the 

 earnest tyro. Let these men fish a natur- 

 ally beautiful water where there are a few 



