. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . ch a shoutas one can only give when conscious of havingachieved a great victory ? CHAPTER XXVIII. SILENT MEN A LONG LOOK AHEAD COCKNEY FISHERMEN TROUT HABITS. Think not silence the wisdom of fools, but, if rightly timed,the honor of wise men who have not the infirmity but the vir-tue of taciturnity, and speak not of the abundance, but of thewell-weighed thoughts of their hearts. Such silence may beeloquence and speak thy worth above the power of words,Make such a one thy friend, in whom princes may be happyand great counsels succe
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . ch a shoutas one can only give when conscious of havingachieved a great victory ? CHAPTER XXVIII. SILENT MEN A LONG LOOK AHEAD COCKNEY FISHERMEN TROUT HABITS. Think not silence the wisdom of fools, but, if rightly timed,the honor of wise men who have not the infirmity but the vir-tue of taciturnity, and speak not of the abundance, but of thewell-weighed thoughts of their hearts. Such silence may beeloquence and speak thy worth above the power of words,Make such a one thy friend, in whom princes may be happyand great counsels successful. Let him have the key of thyheart who hath the lock of his own, which no temptation canopen ; where thy secrets may lastingly lie, like the lamp ofOlybius his urn, alive and light, but close and invisible.—[Sir T. Browne. At Trout-Hall, not far from this place, where I propose tolodge to-night, there is usually an angler that proves goodcompany. And let me tell you that good company and gooddiscourse are the very sinews of virtue.—[Sir Izaak JN my frequent journeyings throughthese pleasant lakes and rivers, withno other companion than my guide,I have learned to understand howreally loquacious are silent men ofmeditative mood. For hours to-gether they make no sign; and butfor an occasional smile, which pass-es like a ripple of sunshine acrosstheir composed and peaceful features, they might PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 229 be deemed as unconscious and as unsusceptibleas the iron row-locks whose monotonous musicmakes regular record of the march of their silence is only in seeming. Theyare all the while holding sprightly mental conver-sation with absent friends, with favorite authors,with the mountains and forests and lakes whichsurround them, or are rehearsing some pleasantincident of field or flood to some sympathizing ac-quaintance, who is as really present, giving atten-tive audience, as if separated from them by but anarms length instead of a hundred miles
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