The Angler and the Torturer 45 



teach him not to kill at all until he knows 

 how to kill and the difference in the 

 killings and the killers. 



Then teach him the angler's gentle art 

 that he may avoid the torturer's brutal 

 "sport" 



"The angler's whole life is a well-rounded poem, 

 and he never misses the opportunity to cast his line 

 in pleasant places." F. E. POND. 



"Let the man of severe aspect who, if he smiles, 

 looks as though he wore a petrified smile that he had 

 bought at a bargain, and whose sole ambition and 

 pleasure is to make money live as long as he can in 

 doing so, and die as rich as possible. This man, if he 

 could know and comprehend what is passing through 

 the angler's mind at this season, would say such vaga- 

 bonds are the cumberers of the earth ; but he could not 

 find a ' cumberer ' in all the land who would change 

 places with him, take his joyless life, sapless heart, 

 frozen visage, narrow views, and great wealth, and give 

 in return the angler's light heart, happy disposition, love 

 of God, his fellow-man, and Nature; his resources within 

 himself, engendered by his fondness for the wild woods, 

 to enjoy the past and anticipate the future, whatever 

 betide ; his desire to see good in everything, his clear 

 conscience, and his fishing tackle." Hon. A. NELSON 

 CHENEY. 



