II 



The Impatient Angler 



" June. . . . When that auspicious, leafy month 

 arrives, not all the cares of state will hold a President, 

 Vice-President, or even a Vice-Regent, from taking his 

 outing on the salmon streams." CHARLES HALLOCK. 



'ZAAK WALTON, who 

 wrote The Complete A n- 

 gler, some time in the 

 seventeenth century 

 and who has ever since 

 been worshipped as 

 "the father of the an- 



"The angler, I think, 



dreams of his favorite gle," SayS that it IS the 

 sport oftener than other 



men of theirs."- w. c. preparation rather than 



PRIME. .. .. ,. 



the realization in an- 

 gling that makes the gentle pastime so 

 charming to real lovers of the rod and 

 line, and we find that no matter how 

 patient the angler may be in the actual 

 pursuit, he is a very impatient man when 

 the season takes on that earliest promise 

 of fishing-time. 



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