198 Fisnmnec inv American WArTERS. 
SECTION SECOND. 
ANGLING FOR CHILDREN. 
“Come when the leaf comes, angle with me, 
Come when the bee comes crossing the lea ; 
Come with the wild flowers, 
Come with the mild showers, 
Come when the singing bird calleth for thee!” 
Sroppart. 
TRANGE! I sometimes involun- 
tarily ejaculate when I see 
people economize the necessa- 
ries of life in order to be able 
to support a carriage and dress 
the family fancifully, to take 
them on a drive in the country 
over dusty roads as an airing 
and exercise for the promotion 
of health. 
Of course, exercise in the 
open air is necessary for the 
preservation of good health; 
and a residence ina city where 
the only breathing-places are 
its parks, or in the few country 
places which are remote from 
waters that offer the recreation 
of angling, there is an excuse 
for the next means in the sim- 
ple catalogue for promoting 
and preserving health, which is 
driving or riding on horseback. 
But in our country of broad 
acres and free fishings, every 
parent should teach his children to angle. The sport, which 
is not laborious, soon renders the young student so ardent in 
its pursuit that he will get sufficient exercise, while Is mind 
