CHAPTEK XIV. 



Fishing Tackle — Something Else. 



Mutual helpfulness between fishermen, of 

 the genuine sort, will enable them to gain and 

 to give the fruits of actual land and water ex- 

 periences; and while many of the stories told 

 about the habits and freaks of nature's cold 

 blooded inhabitants may appear to the outsider 

 and to the careless observer to be untruthful, yet 

 there is generally firm fact for the basis. 



Do we not possess a great many well-defined 

 deformities and idiosyncracies in the human 

 race ? We know that the Spartans had a drastic 

 legal remedy for the future beautification of 

 mankind. 



Our knowledge of fish, bug and animal life 

 is, as yet, in its infantile stage. The chief pur- 

 suit of these creatures has until now been con- 

 fined to the one purpose of profit; with fish 

 for food and oil, bugs for ornament, dyes and 

 ointment, beast and feather life for a variety 

 of purposes but all for man's material physical 

 purposes. 



