re Salmon Fishing, " a Currier and Ives print in 

 the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 



Poor Man's Salmon Fishing 



by Edmund Ware Smith 

 paintings photographed by Sargent Collier 



used to be such a thing as a traditional, or standard, 

 J. salmon fisherman. You don't see him so often these days 

 except in Scotland. He was interesting not so much as a person 

 as an inventory. He was prevalent in June in Boston's North 

 Station boarding the night train for Fredericton, or Saint John, 

 New Brunswick. 



This nameless old curmudgeon was more forbidding than 

 distinguished. He had dined at the Union or Somerset Club, 

 and the barber had trimmed his white mustaches. He wore 



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