XV 



The Angler and the Weakfish 



" The boats are in the breezy bay, 

 Fast by some point that juts its bar. 



Or by some river mouth that pours 

 Its affluent current by the shores, 

 The fisher casts his baited line 

 To tempt the weakfish of the brine." 



ISAAC McLELLAN. 



HE doctor has come to 

 my camp on the tiny 

 island in the Great 

 South Bay almost 

 against his will I 

 forced the outing upon 

 him by constant prais- 

 ing of the wild spot 

 and I feel that I must 



** There is no life more 

 pleasant than the life of 

 the well-governed an- 

 gler." IZAAK WALTON. 



first make him comfortable and then show 

 him the fishing. He is not at all himself. 

 The long sail from the mainland, he says, 

 has destroyed his usual good nature, but 

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