46 WINTER TALKS ON SUMMER PASTIMES. 



from referring to several noted churchmen and scholars 

 with whom I have either camped or met in my forest tramps. 

 Prominently in my mind as I write is an eminent and be- 

 loved Bishop, whose fondness for the pastime often leads 

 him to the silent woods and crystal trout streams within 

 easy reach of his cathedral parish. His appreciation of the 

 dignity as well as of the churchly and fascinating character 

 of the art may be inferred from the fact that he deems it no 

 disparagement to his sacred office to be seen bearing with 

 him homeward his well-filled creel and the tidy fly- rod which 

 had been his only companion through the long summer's 

 day. If any cavil at this apostolic habit of the reverend 

 bishop, I would say to them as good old Izaak said to simi- 

 lar stupid critics of his own day: "Indeed, my friend, you 

 will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has 

 a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending 

 upon it." 



