VIII 



The Angler's Equipment 



West 



Uplifts the club of Hercules for what ? 

 To crush a butterfly or brain a gnat." 



like to catch trout and I 

 like to eat trout, but I 

 prefer fishing for larger 

 fishes." So says a gen- 

 tleman in a magazine 

 story. 



Why larger fishes? I 

 ask. There is not the 

 play in the largest fish that swims that 

 there is in the smallest brook trout, and, 

 if the tackle be of the proper sort and if 

 the angler be gentle and practical, the 

 same amount of sport may be had in 

 taking a pound fontinalis as in boating a 

 hundred-pound tarpon. Little watches 

 give as good time and tell it as correctly 



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" Let independence be 

 our boast." 



