The Angler and the Torturer 



"The angler, only, is brought close, face to face 

 with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich 

 river banks, the only part of the landscape where the 

 hand of man has never interfered." CHARLES 

 KINGSLEY. 



N angler, according to 

 Webster, is a person 

 who fishes; but this is 

 an unfair definition. He 

 who fishes in salt water 

 with a bit of bundle 

 cord or chalk line and 

 an iron nail for a sinker 

 is not an angler in the 

 sense the word was intended by the in- 

 ventors of the expression. Webster did 

 not make the word and he erred in its 

 definition, notwithstanding he was a good 

 angler himself. Sportsmen use the term 

 angler to distinguish the lover of the 

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" The genuine angler 

 is invariably a poet." 

 F. E. POND. 



