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astonishment an acquaintance of mine once 

 betrayed, when I happened to exclaim in his 

 presence, that I could gaze on a new rose of 

 undeniable beauty for ten minutes at a time 

 with unwearied interest ! That man, I verily 

 believe, had not a feeling of courteous com- 

 punction stopped his words, would have dubbed 

 me a lunatic then and there. 



On the banks of many a lovely stream in 

 North Wales, and elsewhere, once the familar 

 resort of the angling fraternity, not a single 

 fisherman is now to be seen, so complete has 

 been the extinction of our finny favourites. 



If the "almighty dollar," as the Yankee 

 would say, is thus to predominate ; what is to 

 prevent everything else, beside fishing, in the 

 shape of diversion to the mind, and relaxation 

 to the limbs, from being inevitably drawn within 

 the vortex, to its eventual suppression ? 



A nice prospect, if not for us, at any rate for 

 our successors, to find that the favourite hunter 

 must be discarded, except it be to drag the 



