CHAPTER XXVIII 



BORROWED LINES 



"Oh I could wish the lord to say 

 That all the twelve months 

 Should be May." 



GEORGE BORROW. 



"I borrow no man's tackle. " "FRANK FORESTER." 



Nature. "Solitude has its charm and its reward 

 and Nature offers to mankind the proper blessings, 

 be they indulged in with care and consideration. The 

 mind that has been oppressed by following civiliza- 

 tion's rut will find ample comfort in the solitude given 

 man by Nature. " R. P. L., The Sportsmen's Review. 



Save the Fishes. " We who love wild life and long 

 ago abandoned the many instruments of extermina- 

 tion and who have come to a more considerate mode of 

 recreation should do all in our power to discourage its 

 destruction and to encourage the propagation of the 

 wild life which has been so generously and graciously 

 given us by our Creator. Only extremists insist on 

 terrible slaughter of fishes, birds, and quadrupeds." 

 E. M. Hermann. 



" Improvement." "No building enterprise, no 

 * betterment* ever spares a tree. Insects and lack of 



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