AMATEUR PHOTO BY R. A. NICHOLS. 



FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES. 



He was caught in the act by the camera, 

 a witness whose testimony is unimpeacha- 

 ble, but just what charge to bring agains': 

 him is the question. 



He can scarcely be accused of being a 

 fish hog, for his total catch for the day 

 was but 10 medium sized trout, 6 being 

 taken from the pool shown. 



A charge of trespass might be well sus- 

 tained, were it not for the fact that he is 



angling on the lease of "The Recreation - 

 Fishing Club/' of which he is promoter 

 and president. 



Worcester County has many beautiful 

 trout streams, and, thanks to a rigid en- 

 forcement of law, many a quiet pool "up 

 the road a bit" and "over there," yields a 

 fair catch to the skillful angler. Please 

 find enclosed $i for membership in the L. 

 A. S. R. A. N., Worcester, Mass. 



We are the great St. Louis fish butchers and our other 

 names are J. J. Burke and Carson Griffith. You see we 

 caught a barrel of blac}; bass in 2 days, and are proud of 

 our great record. We could nor. forego the pleasure of 

 having our picture taken with our wonderful catch 



It is a pleasure to know that you were 

 interested in our "birdless hat show," as it 

 was called. Ever so many pictures of the 

 hats were taken, but all by newspapers, and 

 we have none ourselves. I send you with 

 this to-day's San Francisco Call, which has 

 pictures of some of the hats, though its 

 article emphasizes the historic hats. I do 

 not know whether you can use the pictures 

 in Recreation or not. The historic hats 

 were merely a side issue, to bring out the 

 contrast and add interest. 



Such a thing had never been given on the 

 Pacific coast before, and the newspapers, 

 from Mexico to British Columbia, have 

 written about it, and so have helped us im- 

 mensely. They have all taken pains to 

 bring out our aim, when they wrote about 

 it, and only one that we have heard of has 

 scoffed at it. So I think we can honestly 

 claim to have helped the cause by making 

 a large number of people think about it. 



We do not mean to drop the matter, but 

 shall probably wait until spring, just before 

 the spring openings in the milliners' stores, 

 before taking any further action. 



Nellie M. Gleason. 

 President Ebcll Society, San Francisco. 



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