Fishing and shooting sketches . The Mission of Fishing andFishermen IT was quite a long time agothat a compelling sense of dutyled me to undertake the exon-eration of a noble fraternity, ofwhich I am an humble member, fromcertain narrow-minded, if not mali-cious, accusations. The title givento what was then written, A De-fense of Fishermen, was preciselydescriptive of its purpose. It was79 The Mission of not easy, however, to keep entirelywithin defensive limits; for the temp-tation was very strong and constantto abandon negation and palliationfor the more pleasing task of com-mending to the a
Fishing and shooting sketches . The Mission of Fishing andFishermen IT was quite a long time agothat a compelling sense of dutyled me to undertake the exon-eration of a noble fraternity, ofwhich I am an humble member, fromcertain narrow-minded, if not mali-cious, accusations. The title givento what was then written, A De-fense of Fishermen, was preciselydescriptive of its purpose. It was79 The Mission of not easy, however, to keep entirelywithin defensive limits; for the temp-tation was very strong and constantto abandon negation and palliationfor the more pleasing task of com-mending to the admiration and affec-tion of mankind in affirmative termsboth fishing and fishermen. A deter-mination to attempt this at anothertime, and thus supplement the matterthen in hand, made resistance to thistemptation successful; but the con-templated supplementation was thenforeshadowed in the following terms:The defense of the fishing frater-nity which has been here attemptedis by no means so completely statedas it should be. Nor sh
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