. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . re prolificthan the salmon, and those who write about themshould be excused if in this they are like , the salmon is the king of fish, and allkings have many subjects. And still besides, — asalmon pool can only be fished successfully whenapproached with caution. I am acting upon thisprinciple in penning these rambling chapters. Ido not intend to hazard the satisfaction I find incomposing them, or the diversion which awaitsthose who shall have the good taste to read them,by any premature denouement. Half the pleasureof
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . re prolificthan the salmon, and those who write about themshould be excused if in this they are like , the salmon is the king of fish, and allkings have many subjects. And still besides, — asalmon pool can only be fished successfully whenapproached with caution. I am acting upon thisprinciple in penning these rambling chapters. Ido not intend to hazard the satisfaction I find incomposing them, or the diversion which awaitsthose who shall have the good taste to read them,by any premature denouement. Half the pleasureof the good times of life is lost by the rushand hurry with which they are begun and now, for the first time in half a century, I amin no hurry. It is a new sensation and I ratherlike it. CHAPTEE VI. HOBBIES AND SOME OF THEIR EIDERS. The variety and contrary choices that men make in theworld argue that the same thing is not good to every manalike. This variety of pursuits shows that every one doesnot place his happiness in the same thing.— [ T is not true that every man hashis hobby. The great mass ofmen have no special source ofpleasurable diversion. They arecontent to walk the weary tread-mill of life in stoical monotony,if they can but have the barrenassurance that their oil and^; their wine increaseth. But withthe man who has his hobby itis not so. Equally with others, he has respect untohis larder and his bank account, and is as willingas the most thoroughly devoted man of business tohave both ends meet seasonably and symmetri-cally. He has no less zeal or energy, and is quiteas industrious and thrifty as his neighbor; butthrough the rift in the cloud of his daily struggle,he catches frequent glimpses of his beloved hob-by, and his heart throbs and his step becomes 36 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. elastic as the hcmr approaches when he can takea ride. It may be that the hobby is trottedout daily in the form of a rose-bud, a sheet ofmusic, the framework of some i
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