. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . fish with net or angle, but because he did whatit has become a proverb no angler can do and have luck, and if Uncle Tobys hasty speech had beenas free from guile as an anglers heart while plyinghis vocation, no angels tear need to have fallen toblot out the record. Blessed pastime, whose daynever ends, but whose sun casts a perpetual radi-ance upon the simple wise man who, regularlyas the return of the time of the singing of birds,sayeth to himself, I go a-fishing! We thank God, therefore, for these woods, thesemountains and these
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . fish with net or angle, but because he did whatit has become a proverb no angler can do and have luck, and if Uncle Tobys hasty speech had beenas free from guile as an anglers heart while plyinghis vocation, no angels tear need to have fallen toblot out the record. Blessed pastime, whose daynever ends, but whose sun casts a perpetual radi-ance upon the simple wise man who, regularlyas the return of the time of the singing of birds,sayeth to himself, I go a-fishing! We thank God, therefore, for these woods, thesemountains and these ever-singing waters. Theyare not only the anglers Elysium, but the greatmedicine chest of nature. CHAPTER IV. RE-STOCKING SALMON WATERS — WHAT HAS BEENAND WHAT MAT BE. Theres a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, ariver in Monmouth ; it is called Wye at Monmouth, but it isout of my prains what is the name of the other river; but tisall one, tis so like as my fingers is to my fingers, and thereis salmons in both.— \_King Henry V., Act 4, sc. HE longing of twenty years hasbeen gratified. I have had threeweeks salmon fishing in one ofthe best rivers on the continent;and as many of my readers arequite as fond of angling as I ammyself, they will be interested ina brief record of my experiencein this highest department of thegentle art. All the most desirable salmon rivers in the threeprovinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and NovaScotia, are preserved. Not many years since it be-came alarmingly apparent that this kingly fish wasbeing rapidly exterminated, and that, unless somestringent measures were adopted for its preserva-tion, it would speedily become as scarce as it hadheretofore been abundant. The experience of the PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 21 past sixty years furnished a melancholy lesson ofthe danger of neglect. For within that period,every stream, as far south as the river Credit (atthe head of lake Ontario) and on both sides ofthat lake, lake Champlain and the S
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