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found them to be just what all true anglers ought 

 to be, and what most true anglers are, large-hearted 

 merry men, kindly natured, robustly gentle, hos- 

 pitable as dame nature amid whose grandeur and 

 beauty and repose they hold their annual revels, 

 intelligent and obliging, full of enthusiasm, and 

 so open-hearted and open-handed as to captivate 

 and charm all who are made the delighted recipi- 

 ents of their hospitality. 



Foremost among this bevy of gentlemen I may 

 mention Chief Justice EITCHIE, no less respected 

 for his virtues than honored for his learning, 

 whose more than three score years, because of his 

 constant walks and wanderings as an angler, have 

 failed to check his elasticity or dampen his enthu- 

 siasm. I have pleasant camp memories of this 

 venerable angler of his genial abandon, of his 

 pleasant jest, of his exhaustless fund of anecdote 

 and incident, of his hearty laugh a laugh so 

 hearty as to give the world assurance of an honest 

 man, and of that robust health which is the in- 

 separable companion of what an eccentric Scotch 

 philosopher deemed the only requisites of true feli- 

 city, viz : " a clear conscience and open bowels " 

 uttering no word which might not be spoken in 

 the home circle, and yet overflowing with mellow 

 hilarity. Happy Province which has such a Chief 

 Justice, and happy Chief Justice who has a con- 



