104 The Angler's Secret 



It is not hard for the true angler to 

 find remunerative trout waters; it is the 

 unreasonable fisherman who seeks not 

 the beauties of the gentle art itself nor 

 the accompanying splendor and music of 

 nature in the pursuit, who goes afield for 

 the mere slaughter of quantity who has 

 difficulty in locating a satisfactory fishing 

 ground, for with him the water must 

 yield fish and plenty of them. He cares 

 not for anything else. With the angler, 

 the locality itself is more important than 

 the game it affords. 



The secret of the charm in angling is 

 found in the angler's preference of study- 

 ing rather than destroying his favorite 

 species. 



" Peter said, ' I go a-fishing.' John and Thomas, 

 and James and Nathaniel, and the others, said, ' We 

 will go with you,' and they went." W. C. PRIME. 



