532 APPENDIX. 
A WORD IN CONCLUSION. 
And now, brethren of the angle—students in fish-culture— 
men anxious to develop American fisheries and establish ef: 
fective game-laws—farewell. Iftrue anglers, you are sure to 
be gentle; and as the truly gentle are always virtuous, you 
must be happy. But the best friends must part. 
Ihave endeavored to throw together some pleas in favor 
of the “gentle craft,” and to hint at the importance of water- 
farming. If my mite, contributed to the general stock for 
the promotion of rational enjoyment and useful occupation, 
shall be found worthy of those readers whom it is my pleas- 
ure to honor, it will be a source of gratification to know that 
my labors have not been in vain. 
Let neither prosperity nor adversity deaden “the fresh 
> which the use of the rod and reel al- 
feeling after Nature’ 
ways heightens or confers. Whether overladen with good 
fortune or suffering under the shocks of adversity, forget not 
to take the magic wand and repair to the murmuring waters. 
“The music of those gentle moralists will steal into your 
heart ;” and, while invigorating physical energy, your souls 
will be charmed, and your minds soothed and tempered by 
the music of birds, the sights of nature, and the sounds of in- 
ferior animals above, around, and beneath the enlivening 
waters, 
With rosy dreams and bright streams, breezy morns and 
mellow skies, a ight heart and a clear conscience, may “God 
speed ye well.” 
