AND HOW I HAVE CAUGHT MY FISH 189 



I don't know of any sport so cheap and certainly 

 of none so good. 



Cheap, or dear, the time comes when I must go 

 fishing. I don't want all the sea or all the river so 

 I make no secret of where I get my joys 



To see men or boys fishing, be they known to 

 me or not, gives me pleasure, just as seeing them 

 do wrong would cause me pain. 



Toil is an inheritance we cannot escape, but we 

 may learn to spend our leisure in such a manner as 

 will best fit us to resume our tasks. 



I have taught every boy of our big family to 

 fish, and I hope there is not one amongst them, 

 indeed I am sure there's not, that would fudge at 

 marbles. 



Boys that have been taught to play fair and tell 

 the truth give little trouble and heaps of pleasure ; 

 yes, heaps and heaps, 



I know men who only care for making money 

 and who appear to need no breaks in their yearly 

 toil and, if an enforced one comes on, it is to them 

 the greatest toil of all. 



They are much to be pitied who have no hobby 

 to fall back upon. When they have had their fill of 

 money-making there is no retirement for them, as 

 that would mean rust, and then not all their wealth 

 can purchase for them the pleasures of wholesome 

 sport. 



A hobby such as fishing is infinitely more than a 

 filler in of time. Who has gone often to the river- 



