158 THe Determined Angler 



care kill what * improvement* leaves." New York 

 Evening World, Aug. 18, 1914. 



Jesus the Fisherman. Had not the Saviour of 

 Gennesaret understood fishermen's signs, such as the 

 riff on the water, the schooling of jthe fishes, the hover- 

 ing gulls, there would have been no miraculous catch 

 of fishes." Charles Hallock. 



Society where None Intrudes. "I had pined so 

 much, in the dust and heat of the great town, for trees 

 and fields, and running waters, and the sounds of 

 country life, and the air of country winds, that never 

 more could I grow weary of these soft enjoyments. " 

 Blackmore, Lorna Doone. 



The Call of the Wild. "Lying hidden away in the 

 back of the brain is the primitive longing for adven- 

 ture and the tingle of the nerves that awaits it. Under 

 the veneer of what is called civilization lie the racial 

 and elemental passions, just as Mother Earth lies 

 beneath the asphalted streets of the city." Adele M. 

 Ballard. 



Gold Fishing. "When all green places have been 

 destroyed in the builder 's lust of gain; when all the 

 lands are but bricks and piles of wood and iron; when 

 there is no moisture anywhere and no rain ever falls; 

 when the sky is a vault of smoke and all the rivers reek 

 with poison; when forest and stream, the moor and 

 meadow and all the old green wayside beauty are 

 things vanished and forgotten; when every gentle, 

 timid thing of brake and bush, of air and water, has 

 been killed because it robbed them of a berry or a 



