CHAPTER XIII. 



ANGLING GENERAL REMARKS ON ANGLERS AND ANGLING. 



FOR a person to be really an angler, he must 

 really have a taste for angling, and must also 

 be of a suitable disposition. A noisy, dash- 

 ing, changeable, and unreflective person, will 

 never make an angler, at all events not for 

 long ; a few minutes, or at most an hour, 

 will be quite enough time for him to spend 

 in such a lifeless, uninteresting pastime, as 

 he would call it. Of course, such a person 

 will never make any proficiency in the art, 

 and never carry home a handsome basket of 

 fish for supper ; if he do, they will be some 

 that he has bought already caught for him. 

 But do not let people judge of all anglers by 

 such a person, because there are those who 

 are of quite a different disposition. We never 

 bought a fish in our lives, and never took 



