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CHAPTER VIII. 



We now come to a Sportsman, and I must 

 allow it to be an effort on my part to call 

 him so. The fisher, or fisherman, or angler, let 

 me call him by which name sounds to him the 

 most respectful ; for though he does not rank 

 high in my category of legitimate Sportsmen, I 

 still respect the man, respect his pursuit as 

 being a perfectly harmless one, and respect the 

 taste that enables him to find amusement in 

 contemplating the beauties of nature while en- 

 joying his favorite pursuit. Little as I hold 

 the angler as a Sportsman, I always annex the 

 idea of an amiable man to him who makes it 

 his recreation ; an impatient man would find it 



