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such unusual terms) when they found they 



could not rouse my attention to their description 



of a beautiful trout they had killed. God help 



my ignorance, I could see no beauty in one 



trout over another, and if I had caught one, I 



should not care one farthing if he was as ugly 



as an imp, provided he was a trout ; so much 



for my taste and judgment as an angler. 



I have now ran through the category of 



what I termed Legitimate Sportsmen ; I trust I 



have shewn some of them not only as conducing 



to the amusement of their neighbours and to 



the country around, but useful in a national 



point of view. Cynics or the unthinking may 



dispute this, nay, may ridicule the idea of a 



sportsman effecting it ; I must take leave, 



however, to remark to such persons that the 



man who, in any way, directly or indirectly, 



increases the prosperity of his country, by causing 



a circulation of money, serves it, in a financial 



point of view. He who conduces to its amusement, 

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