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is of more account than what he brings in his basket, " 

 says W. J. Long. "Anglers encourage the adoption of 

 angling methods," says Dr. Van Dyke, "which make 

 the wholesale slaughter of fishes impossible and in- 

 crease the sport of taking a fair number in a fair way/' 

 As chivalric single-missile bow-and-arrow exercise 

 dignifies archery above bunch-arrow work in war, so 

 the gentle use of refined tackle dignifies angling above 

 mere fish getting. Trap shooting is delightful, and 

 more birds are killed than the gunner would bag in 

 marsh and meadow, but is trap shooting therefore 

 more "good" than game-shooting in the glorious 

 fields and forests? No, sir; and though the hand-line 

 fisherman may honestly take half the ocean's yield, 

 still his pursuit and his catch cannot equal and can- 

 not be legitimately compared to the code and the 

 creel of the competent Angler. 



C. B. 



RICHMOND HILL, 



LONG ISLAND, N. Y., 



March, 1916. 



