32 The Angler's Secret 



their habits and habitat with mutual 

 benefit, if the duties of each could be 

 amicably arranged. 



Thus, to rest both mind and body, one 

 must relieve them of the employment 

 they are mostly and commonly occupied 

 with. Abstaining from business, merely, 

 is not rest. To relieve the body and 

 neglect the mind is to tire the mind all 

 the more, and to relieve the mind and not 

 the body is equally disadvantageous. 



No man, half wrecked mentally and 

 bodily from his daily toil at the desk, over 

 the counter, on the work bench, or in 

 the noisy street, can find rest by merely 

 remaining " quite still," as the doctor 

 tells him. He should seclude himself 

 from familiar scenes in a mild wilderness 

 where everything pertaining in the least 

 way to his regular occupation is excluded ; 

 where he may not sit "quite still," and 

 worry himself more weak and wan; 

 where everything in his surroundings and 

 in his pursuits is in marked contrast to 



