CHAPTER XIX 



THE ANGLER 



" I live not in myself, but I become 

 Portion of that around me ; and to me 

 High mountains are a feeling, but the hum 

 Of human cities torture." 



BYRON. 



"He'd eat his lunch in a minute; 



He had no time to spare. 

 At a mounted fish in a window 

 He'd stop an hour to stare." 



Judge. 



The Lone Angler. "The reason a man likes to go 

 angling is that his family doesn't like to go with 

 him." New York Press. 



The True Angler. "If true Anglers, you are sure 

 to be gentle; and as the truly gentle are always virtu- 

 ous, you must be happy. Let neither prosperity nor 

 adversity deaden 'the fresh feeling after Nature* 

 which the use of the rod and reel always heightens or 

 confers. Whether overladen with good fortune or 

 suffering under the shocks of adversity, forget not to 

 take the magic wand and repair to the murmuring 

 waters. 'The music of those gentle moralists will 

 steal into your heart ' ; and, while invigorating physical 

 energy, your souls will be charmed and your minds 



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