. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . amusements as heis genial in his social life. CHAPTER III. ANGLING AS A MEDICINE. Yf a man lacke leche or medicyne he fhall make threthynges his leche and medicyne: and he fhall nede neuer nomoo. The fyrfte of theym is a mery thought. The feconde islabour not outrageo. The thyrde is dyete mefurable. Fyrftethat yf a man wyll euer more be in mery thoughtes and havea glad fpyryte, he muit efchewe all contraryous company, andall places of debate where he myghte haue any occafyons ofmalencoly. And yf he woll haue a labour not outrageoh
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . amusements as heis genial in his social life. CHAPTER III. ANGLING AS A MEDICINE. Yf a man lacke leche or medicyne he fhall make threthynges his leche and medicyne: and he fhall nede neuer nomoo. The fyrfte of theym is a mery thought. The feconde islabour not outrageo. The thyrde is dyete mefurable. Fyrftethat yf a man wyll euer more be in mery thoughtes and havea glad fpyryte, he muit efchewe all contraryous company, andall places of debate where he myghte haue any occafyons ofmalencoly. And yf he woll haue a labour not outrageohe muft thenne ordeyne him to his hertys eafe and pleafaunce,wythout ftudye, penfyfneffe or traueyle, a mery occupacyon,which may rejoyce his herte : and in whyche his fpyrytes mayhaue a mery delyte. And yf he woll be dyetyd mefurably, hemuft efchewe all places of ryotte whyche is caufe of furfetteand fykneffe: and he muft drawe him to places of fwete ayreand hungry: and ete nourifhable meetes and dyffyable alfo.— [Treatife of Fy/JIiynge with an Angle, CONCTJE with those who speakof the pastime of angling as amedicine, not alone from my ownexperience, although that maycount for something, but fromthe great number of strong menwith whom I have been broughtin intimate contact during mymore than thirty years of out-door life, and who, from theiryouth up, have found nothing so invigorating asthe pure air of the mountains; nothing so sooth- PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 15 ing, after the toil and worry and fret of business,as the silence of the woods; nothing so pervadingin its mellowing influence upon nerve and brainand spirit as the pleasant murmur of the flowingriver; nothing so health-giving as the aroma ofnatures grand forest laboratory; and nothing soexhilarating as the rise and swirl and rush oftrout or salmon. Those whom I have thus known,with scarcely an exception, have preserved thevigor of lusty youth longer and more uniformlythan their contemporaries who have sought othe
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