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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 12, 1904. 
A Past Grand Master of Angling. The Qualities of an Angler. 
What would 
Many of the men who have become expert with rod 
and reel, masters of woodcraft, skilled in the life and 
makeshifts of the camp, joying in the attractions of 
stream and forest, yet feel in their old age that their best 
angling joys were had when they did not know of finer 
tackle than the rude pole, cork "bobber," line tied to the 
hook without leader or snell, and when they used the 
grasshopper, angleworm or grub for a lure. 
From such humble beginnings men like Hallock, Jor- 
dan, and Harris have become experts with the fly, writers 
about fish and fishing, makers of books, founders 
of sporting publications, and over their words we love to 
linger as we find them all too few. But that springtime 
of their boyhood was the best, as they were happy with 
the tamarack or cane pole while fishing for chubs or 
sunfish in the pond, or were after shiners and "punkin 
seeds" along the creek. 
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy." 
not the old fisherman give to hark back 
to those child days ! Would Hallock tell 
of his angling in Alaska, Quebec or Nova 
Scotia, where he captured trout and sal- 
mon with the Murphy bamboo rod and 
shining reel? Would he speak_ of the 
days and nights along the Nepigon, _ his 
cruises along the Florida coast, his delight 
in canoe and camp? Yes; but dearer yet 
must be the recollection of his days with 
the perch and sunfish more than a half 
century ago. 
Such men, authorities upon the sport of 
fishing and camping, are entitled to the 
thanks of all true sportsmen. Think of 
that distant date when Forest and 
Stream was founded, of its struggles, and 
the devoted work of its founder until it 
became and continues a well-spring of 
pleasure to so many thousands of readers 
each week. Such an accomplishment — 
practical, beneficent — places sportsmen 
under lasting obligations to those who 
have woven into the journalism of sport 
the best years of their lives. 
There are also men who, of course, have 
fished in widely separated regions, who 
for many years had little thought of shar- 
ing their experiences with their fellow 
sportsmen by telling about them in print. 
Trout, ouananiche, sea trout, bass, gray- 
ling, grilse, salmon, the deer and caribou 
in Quebec forests, the joy of canoeing and 
angling along the Miramichi, Nepisiguit, 
St. John or Tobique rivers in New Bruns- 
wick; the smoke and flicker and flame of 
camp-fires, the stalking of deer and listen- 
ing to the drumming of partridges and 
calls of quail — these were what they 
longed for "as the heart panteth after the 
water-brooks," and the all too short vaca- 
tion meant life with them. 
Some of these men are now old, unable 
to bear privation, undue exertion, the tent 
life and cramped posture of the canoe, 
wading the stream or carrying the gun. 
But they not only retain their love for 
those outing scenes, but it has all become 
more dear. "Absence makes the heart 
grow fonder." They have but to sit in the 
armchair or lie in their beds at home and 
close their eyes, and presto ! before them 
swings that winding, forest-bordered river 
where they were so happy. The fishing of 
youth, the sport of manhood, the laborious 
and painfully-bought camping of older 
age, have been succeeded by the sporting 
jovs of memory. Prisoners they may be, 
but, like Christopher North, their hearts 
are out in the forests, beside lakes and 
streams, joying in wind and storm ; And 
as they grow ominously near to their fare- 
well to earth, how their hearts must reach 
forward in longing and hope that on the 
Other Side some stream, camp, tent and 
canoe may be vouchsafed to them, and the „ 
renewal of childhood and its heaven "around about. 
These men have reached a ripe age when their brother 
sportsmen best love to read what they may choose to 
write of their experiences. Often they have full strength 
of brain and facultv when confined even to their rooms 
with infirmities. And what a pleasure it is to read their 
contributions to the sporting publications! A very few 
retain all the strength and judgment of the days when 
they were editors, lawyers, merchants— men who were a 
part of and joyed in, the world's work. Strong, virile, 
their bodies infirm, they yet ray forth opinions and ex- 
periences that are the result of even a three-fourth 
century's knowledge of sport. They are men whom all 
sportsmen, even those whose hair is already silvered 
with age, delight to honor. 
Fond recollections cluster about them ^ even .111 
dreams, proving the worth of Rousseau's words, 
"Absence is to love what the wind is to the fire; it 
extinguishes the little, but increases the great." 
. Such a man, a past grand master of angling, and a 
prominent authority whom we all love to honor, lives 
at Sussex, New Brunswick, and is now eighty-four years 
old Readers of Forest and Stream do not need men- 
tion of his name to recognize this all too poorly drawn 
picture of him. May his few remaining years be bright 
and happy in that home up in the beautiful Kennebecasis 
Valley. I* 
The arms here shown, which we have called "the de- 
vice of all true anglers," is the frontispiece of "The Lon- 
don Anglers' Book, or Waltonian Chronicle," published 
by John Baddeley in 1834, and, as the extended title page 
runs, ''containing much original information to anglers 
generally, combined with numerous amusing songs and 
anecdotes of fish and fishing never before published." 
The editors of the Bibliofheca Piscatoria describe the lit- 
tle book as "coarse and Cockney," and the description is 
perhaps not. undeserved; we give one of the yarns, of the 
"Setting Florse," a story which will be recognized as that 
one which in slightly different form Lincoln used to tell 
of the horse which squatted to point game when in the 
middle of a river, to the great chagrin and alarm of the 
rider. But whatever we shall say of the contents of the 
book — and it was a good sort of book for those who 
wanted a good book of that sort — we will all assent to 
Mr. Woodward's estimate of the frontispiece as a gem. 
The first is Faith, not wauering and vnstable, 
But such as had that holy Patriarch old, 
That to the highest was so acceptable 
As his increase and of spring manifolde. 
Exceeded far the starres innumerable, 
So must he still a firme persuasion holde, 
That where as waters, brookes, and lakes are found, 
There store of Fish without all doubt abound. 
For nature that hath made no emptie thing, 
But all her workes doth well and nisely frame, 
Hath fild each Brooke, each Riuer, Lake and Spring, 
With creatures, apt to Hue amidst the same;_ 
Euen as the earth, the ayre, and seas doe bring 
Forth Beasts, and Birds of sundry sort and name, 
And giuen them shape abilitv and sence, 
To line and dwell therein without offence. 
The second gift and qualitie is Hope, 
The Anchor-holde of euery hard desire ; 
That hauing of the day so large a scope, 
He shall in time to wished hap aspire, 
And ere the Sunne hath let the heauenly 
cope 
Obtaine the sport and game he doth desire, 
And that the Fish though sometimes 
slow to bite, 
Will recompense delay with more 
delight. 
The third is Loue, and liking to the game, 
And to his friend and neighbour dwelling 
by; 
For greedy pleasure not to spoile the same, 
Nor of his Fish some portion to deny 
To any that are sicklie, weake, or lame, 
But rather with his Line and angle try ; 
In Pond or Brooke, to doe what in 
him lyes 
To take such store for them as may 
suffice. 
Then followeth Patience; that the furious 
flame 
Of Choller cooles, and Passion puts to 
flight, 
As doth a skilfull rider breake and tame 
The Courser wilde, and teach him tread 
aright : 
So patience doth the minde dispose and 
frame 
To take mishaps in 
them light, 
As losse of Fish, 
Lead, or all, 
Or other chance that often may befall. 
J.BaMel&yBel, 
worth and count 
Line, Hooke, or 
THE DEVICE OF ALL TRUE ANGLERS. 
Being the frontispiece of "The London Anglers' Book." London, 
collection of Mr. Russell W. Woodward. 
1824. 
From the 
The fift good guift is low Humilitie, 
As when a Lyon coucheth for his pray, 
So must he stoope or kneele vpon his knee, 
To saue his line or put the weeds away, 
Or lye along sometimes if neede there be 
For any .et or chance that happen may, 
• And not to scorne to take a little 
paine, 
To serue his turne his pleasure to 
obtaine. 
The sixt is paineful strength and courage 
good, 
The greatest to incounter in the Brooke, 
If that he happen in his angry mood, 
To snatch your bayte, and beare away 
your Hooke : 
With wary skill to rule him in the flood, 
Vrifil more quiet, tame, and milde he looke, 
And all , adtientures constantly to 
beare, 
That may betide without mistrust or 
feare. 
It is an ideal device. Mr. Woodward kindly sent us, as 
fitting to go with it, this exposition of the qualities of an 
angler, as set forth in John Denny's "Secrets of 
Angling," an extremely rare little book of verse printed 
in 1613, forty years before the "Compleat Angler." Here 
follow j I ui £1 
Cbe Qualities of an Angler. 
Now, ere I farther goe, it shall behoue^ 
To shew what gifts and qualities of minde 
Belongs to him that doth this pastime loue ; 
And what the vertues are of euery kinde 
Without the which it were in vaine to prone, 
Or to expect the pleasure he should finde, 
No more then he that hauing store of meate 
Hath lost all lust and appetite to eate. 
For what auailes to Brooke or Lake to goe, 
With handsome Rods and Hookes of diuers sort, 
Well twisted Lines and many trinkets moe, 
To finde the Fish within their watry fort, 
If that the minde be not contended so. 
But wants those gifts that should the rest support, 
And make his pleasure to his thoughts agree, ' 
With these therefore he must endued be. 
Next unto this is Liberalitie, 
Feeding them oft with full and plenteous 
hand, 
Of all the rest a needfull qualitie, 
To draw them near the place where you wil stand. 
Like to the ancient hospitalitie, 
That sometime dwelt in Albions fertile land, 
But now is sent away into exile, 
Beyond the bounds, of Isabellas lie. • 
The eight is knowledge how to finde the way 
To make them bite when they are dull and slow 
And what doth let the same and breedes delay, 
And euery like impediment to know, 
That keepes them from their foode and wanted pray, 
Within the streame, or standing waters low, 
And with experience skilfully to proue 
All other faults to mend or to remoue. 
The ninth is placabilitie of minde, 
Contented with a reasonable dish, 
Yea though sometimes no sport at all he finde, 
Or that the weather proue not to his wish. 
The tenth is thanks to that god, of each kinde, 
To net and bayt doth send both foule and Fish, 
And still reserue inough in secret store, 
To please the rich, and to relieue the poore. 
T-h' eieauenth good guift and hardest to indure. 
Is fasting long from all superfluous fare, 
Ynto the which he must himselfe iqure. 
