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prevents further propagation of the whole species with the 

 refuse of his forest-devastating, money-making machine. 

 True, the angler like all fishermen, and like the fishes 

 themselves, kills his specimens, but this killing is ordained 

 by nature herself at least it has better grounds for excuse, 

 if excuse it needs, than that ten-fold more destructive 

 killing by the fishes that not only slay for food, but actually 

 mutilate millions upon millions of their kind for the mere 

 play afforded them in this practice and though the angler 

 may be in the wrong when he humanely dispatches a few 

 of the batch he breeds, he is not as hopeless as the wanton 

 fisher, or as brutal as the unenlightened "reformers," the 

 so-called humane lady with the fashion furs and feathers 

 of fast-disappearing species she never turns a hair to re- 

 plenish or protect, and the old gentleman hypocrite with 

 his murderous sawdust and dve. 



Arctic (Sack's) Gray liny Thymallus sifjnifer. 



