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has been lightly touched upon. It has not a commercial value, it 
is not purchasable by any amount of gold. You cannot trade it 
in the market for diamonds. ‘The tired-out man of business goes 
to the woods and there he crosses hands with nature. There he 
receives ten fold back from her in every conceivable way, gifts 
that he in no ways has given her anything for. He learns to love 
what? Not only the beautiful fish, but, as he becomes a cultur- 
ist, he appreciates more keenly what these things mean, while 
nature gives him absolute rest and bestows the beauties that he 
can appreciate, of sky, of the thunderstorm, of the charm of flee- 
ing cloudland and peace—perfect in its purity. Everything is 
beautiful,everything is worth study, and all means to him health, 
rest to his nervous system, without being away and becoming 
lazy, without simply doing nothing. These things interest the 
business and the professional man and you want a few of us on 
your side. We may not amount to much as fish culturists, but 
you may need a few of us. Sometimes we can aid you in other 

ways, by keen appreciation of the magnificent work you gentle- 
men are doing all over the country, and I have noted as the years 
go by that the number of true sportsmen, and lovers of nature, 
are increasing; there is a great difference between a sport and a 
sportsman, and becoming a true sportsman. Many a man calls 
himself a sport (I suppose he is) I don’t want to go into that 
phase of it, anyone who will catch a fish with nine hooks in 
him—he is a sport, perhaps, but he is not a sportsman or fisher- 
man. Now you are training men far beyond what you think. 
You are helping me out. What you have said here today has 
encouraged me to go on with my work. You are preserving for 
future generations specimens of fish that would, without your 
efforts, soon be eradicated. Unless we are constantly doing some- 
thing, the good species would soon be caught out. You should, 
gentlemen, appeal not only to the true sportsman of America, 
but you will help men who naturally give up their lives as fisher- 
men and to whom it is a legitimate business, and worst of all you 
will have to supply the losses caused by the awful invasion and 
happenings all over the country, that genus that we call the fish 
hog. 
Do the rainbow and brook trout live in harmony? I consider 
they do, anyway they grow up together in friendship. Perhaps 
