. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . ited 263 Capture of a seven pound trout in Rangely lake 264 Reel up 264 First Visit to the Cascapedia. PLEASURES OF ANGLING. CHAPTER I. PEBFATOBT AHT> APOLOGETIC. To al you that ben vertuous: gentyll: and free borne Iwryte and make this fymple treatife folowynge : by whycheye may haue the full craft of anglynge to dyfport you at yourlufte, to the entent that your aege maye the more floure andthe more longer to endure. — [Treatife of Fyffhynge with anAngle, 1496. HATEVEE pleasure a veteranmay find in occasionally recount-ing his
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . ited 263 Capture of a seven pound trout in Rangely lake 264 Reel up 264 First Visit to the Cascapedia. PLEASURES OF ANGLING. CHAPTER I. PEBFATOBT AHT> APOLOGETIC. To al you that ben vertuous: gentyll: and free borne Iwryte and make this fymple treatife folowynge : by whycheye may haue the full craft of anglynge to dyfport you at yourlufte, to the entent that your aege maye the more floure andthe more longer to endure. — [Treatife of Fyffhynge with anAngle, 1496. HATEVEE pleasure a veteranmay find in occasionally recount-ing his deeds of valor, the re-hearsal at some time becomesmonotonous. So with these talkson Angling. They were wellenough years ago, but they seemto the writer thereof hardly inharmony with the assumed gra-vity of furrows, wrinklesand hoary locks. Not that a true angler everpasses the line which takes him into the land ofailments and decrepitude. It is the glory of theart that its disciples never grow old. The musclesmay relax and the beloved rod become a PLEASURES OF ANGLINU. but the fire of enthusiasm kindled in youth isnever extinguished. The time, however, doescome when one is reluctant to parade the sourcesof even his innocent pleasures, except, perhaps, tothose simple wise men whom he knows to bein sympathy with him, and who can appreciatethe too generally unappreciated truth that thatpleasure is only worthy the pursuit of men or ofangels which worketh no evil. But so many kind friends, who find delight inthe pursuit of the gentle art, have importunedme to forego my purpose to be silent, and topermit them, just this once, to enjoy what theyare pleased to characterize as the pleasure theyderive from these rambling jottings, that I havereluctantly consented to gratify the few withwhom I know I shall be en rapport from the start,at the hazard of displeasing the many whose high-est conceptions of angling have been derived fromthat libelous old adage of a rod and line, wi
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