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nified clergyman, and better known from his 

 moral and theological writings than from 

 his fishing exploits, preferred, like his great 

 exemplar, Dr. Nowell, to have his portrait 

 taken with a fishing rod over his shoulder 

 rather than with a book in his hand. 



Oliver. I have not unfrequently noticed 

 in my fishing excursions that you often meet 

 with old men who are anglers, either for the 

 sake of amusement, or who have adopted 

 the pursuit as being at once a source of 

 profit and pleasure. 



Rev. J. T. I am convinced that angling 

 is greatly conducive both to health and lon- 

 gevity. It cannot have been from mere acci- 

 dent, or from their having originally stronger 

 stamina than other mortals, that so many 

 persons who have been anglers have lived to 

 an age far exceeding the ordinary term of 

 human existence. Their pursuits by the 

 side of running streams, whose motion im- 

 parts increased activity to the vital principle 

 of the air ; their exercise, regular, without 



