232 AN ANGLER AT LARGE 



Or for a chevin is tenacious of purpose he 

 will shrink from public observation and will only 

 show himself to the little children who sometimes 

 play there, hopeful of their ignorant admiration. 

 But I shall tell the children too. 



Thus after a time he will learn the futility of 

 his conduct and go away down or up stream 

 whence he came, where other chevins are. There 

 he will excite the cupidity of chevin fishers, but 

 he will do it on his own merits. I trust that 

 the lesson will sink in and that for the future he 

 will content himself with being known for a 

 moderate chevin rather than being mistaken for an 

 impressive trout. 



