140 MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 



That settled the marriage question. Of course, I 

 had nothing to say, and he didn't expect I would have, 

 but he was compelled to confide his secret to a human 

 being of some kind, and the one before him served his 

 purpose. 



In after years whenever a box trap was stumbled on 

 in the woods it brought up the picture of Garry Van 

 Hoesen, the shy, sensitive fellow who longed for human 

 sympathy, but from a lack of aggressiveness or an ex- 

 cess of diffidence, self-consciousness or whatever you 

 please to call it, seemed lonesome in this great bustling 

 world. If I'd brought him that rabbit he would not 

 have killed it. 



In after years I fished with men of all conditions in 

 life, men of high character and men of no character 

 worth mentioning, men of education and intelligence 

 and those who had neither, but among them all I have a 

 warm spot in my memory for simple, honest Garry Van 

 Hoesen. 



