Fishing and shooting sketches . Si Jbeferjce oP liSli Iiiltte. A Defense of Fishermen BY way of introduction and ex-planation, it should be saidthat there is no intention atthis time to deal with those who fishfor a livelihood. Those sturdy andhard-working people need no vindi-cation or defense. Our concern iswith those who fish because they havean occult and mysterious instinctwhich leads them to love it, becausethey court the healthful, invigoratingexertion it invites, and because its in-dulgence brings them in close contact19 A Defense of Fishermen and communion with Natures bestand most el
Fishing and shooting sketches . Si Jbeferjce oP liSli Iiiltte. A Defense of Fishermen BY way of introduction and ex-planation, it should be saidthat there is no intention atthis time to deal with those who fishfor a livelihood. Those sturdy andhard-working people need no vindi-cation or defense. Our concern iswith those who fish because they havean occult and mysterious instinctwhich leads them to love it, becausethey court the healthful, invigoratingexertion it invites, and because its in-dulgence brings them in close contact19 A Defense of Fishermen and communion with Natures bestand most elevating sort of fishing is pleasure andnot work—sport and not money-grab-bing. Therefore it is contemptuouslyregarded in certain quarters as no bet-ter than a waste of time. Generous fishermen cannot fail tolook with pity upon the benightedpersons who have no better concep-tion than this of the uses and benefi-cent objects of rational these sad and ominous days ofmad fortune-chasing, every patriotic,thoughtful citizen, whet
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