and Outdoor Life 



congratulating myself on the men- 

 tal and physical restoration I had 

 derived from these excursions. So, 

 also, when people, more mistaken than 

 malicious, have wagged their heads 

 in pitying fashion and deprecated my 

 indulgence in hunting and fishing friv- 

 olity, which, in high public service, I 

 have found it easy to lament the neg- 

 lect of these amiable persons to ac- 

 cumulate for their delectation a fund 

 of charming sporting reminiscence; 

 while, at the same time, I sadly re- 

 flected how their dispositions might 

 have been sweetened and their lives 

 made happier if they had yielded 

 something to the particular type of 

 frivolity which they deplored. 



I hope it may not be amiss for me 

 to supplement these personal obser- 

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