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admiration of the scenery which surrounds 

 him proceeds from a higher source. He 

 admires not the winding stream, the rocky 

 cliff, the waving trees, and the distant moun- 

 tain, as a connoisseur does a production of 

 art. The angler's pleasure in the midst of 

 such scenes is direct and involuntary; it 

 proceeds not from the suggestion of acquired 

 taste, but is the impulse of feeling ; it 

 comes without seeking, and the effect is at 

 once gladdening and irresistible. 



It is unnecessary here to enter into the 

 question of cruelty in the use of bait, which 

 is therefore left to be settled by some tender 

 person after he has solved the knotty point 

 respecting the right of man to use horses in 

 running the mail ten miles an hour ; to pluck 

 live geese to make himself a downy bed ; or 

 to eject the harmless natives from their pearly 

 domiciles, and then commit them, before they 

 have recovered from their amazement, to that 

 general lock-up, his stomach, not so much 

 to assuage the cravings of hunger as to create 



