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THE FISH AND THE FISHERMAN. 
T seems to me, says S. R. Morgan in The 
tlook, the anti-piscators go much too far when 
1 say, “He [the fisherman] must shut up his R. E. P. 
Mirt to the death agony of inferior creatures 
*r whom God has given him power.” That 
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ts made without reflection, for one need not 
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wid women too) who lov ed or love the gentle COMPANY 
i of angling. Will any of these supersensitive 
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lirge - Dr. George W. Bethune, Dr. Irenzus 
cime, Dr. Henry van Dyke, or any other of 
; host of members of the clerical profession, 
it and present, who were or are lovers of 
ling, and lovers of their fellowmen as well, 
Ih callousness of heart or indifference to the 
ath agony of inferior creatures?’ Go to! 
3d what of good old Izaak W alton, who had 
s to say on the subject: “We may say of 
lxling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: 
yubtless God could have made a better berry, 
i doubtless God never did’; and so, if I might 
kjudge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, 
yocent, recreation than angling.” 
Che discussion seems to have shifted from the 
“ect on the fish to the effect on the fisherman 
yaself. Well, so far as my own experience 
eS, and it is not brief, extending as it does 
*r more than half a century, I can say that I 
ve usually found the true sportsman (not the 
jg”), whether hunter or angler, of a broad, 
yzerous, and kindly spirit ‘free-handed and 
rm-hearted, quick with sympathetic help to 
fering “inferior creatures,’ and without a trace 
athe implied brutalizing effect of either pastime: One D Th 
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