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IN ME5IORIAM. 



toniau Notes : " " The atream-side is ever dear to me, and I 

 love to think of the times when I have trudged merrily along 

 it, finding again in the fresh air and moderate exercise, and 

 devout looks of Nature, the strength of nerve, the buoyancy 

 of heart and health of mind, which I had lost in my pent li- 

 brary and town duties ; I trust that I have drunk enough of 

 the old angler's spirit 1 not to let such pastime break in upon 

 better things ; but, on the other hand, I have worked the 

 harder from thankfulness to Him who taught the brook to 

 wind with musical gurglings as it rolls on to the great sea." 



And, again, who does not remember the kind, amiable, 

 modest, and retired business-man and Christian angler, John 

 D. Keese, Esq., who enjoyed the pastime at Lake George, and 

 who described in these pages the noble black basse. 3 He it 

 was rbat penned the first lines ever written on taking that 

 delicious fish with a red-and-white fly ; aDd of the crafty salt- 

 water sheepshead, 8 and of the active and elegant king-fish. 4 

 One cannot but admire his rebuke to the learned Dr. John- 

 son, 6 with which he concludes : " And as a Christian I cer- 

 tainly aay that, in some of my solitary rambles, or boat-excur- 

 sions, with my rod, I have been favored with the most devout 

 and grateful emotions of the heart in contemplating the 

 beauties of creation ; and, looking up from the works of my 

 Maker arouud me to Him who made them all, my medita- 

 tions on the divine goodness have been most sweet." 



Gone, also, is Henry Inman, the renowned landscape- 

 painter, and one of the most graceful and accomplished fly- 

 fishers of this century ; again, from the higher walks of legis- 

 lation have departed the Hon. Daniel Webster and ex-Presi- 



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