Western field . succulency to the palate, as your ravishedsenses attest a little later on. Mentally youcompare him to the Truckee giant—andthat gross gladiator loses by the he is like some burly prize-fighter inwhose vanquishment you were inexorablyfierce and eager and relentless; but thistroutlet you liken to your own warrior babyboy at home, whose first combat with anoversized playmate you yesterday watchedwith mixed apprehension and exultant pride,out of your study window. And you pat himwith a reminiscent tenderness just as youpatted the head of your vanquished getling,proud
Western field . succulency to the palate, as your ravishedsenses attest a little later on. Mentally youcompare him to the Truckee giant—andthat gross gladiator loses by the he is like some burly prize-fighter inwhose vanquishment you were inexorablyfierce and eager and relentless; but thistroutlet you liken to your own warrior babyboy at home, whose first combat with anoversized playmate you yesterday watchedwith mixed apprehension and exultant pride,out of your study window. And you pat himwith a reminiscent tenderness just as youpatted the head of your vanquished getling,proud even in his defeat because he put up agame fight and stayed as long as he could. Why do I mix fighting and fish together?Because, my friend, they are of a natureand involve the same conditions. For whenwe fish we are but fighting for our heritage,. trying to regain the birthright which wehave so prodigally wasted. For no rationalman fishes primarily and solely for fish—perish the base thought! We go astream inresponse to a mysterious influence whichmay not be denied—the insistent call of Na-ture to return to barbarism and joys whosesweetness not all the gall and vinegar ofcivilization can wholly embitter. We go un-knowingly back to first conditions; to timesand things when every man was a power tohimself—an integral part of the great sys-tem instead of being, as now, merely a cipherin the result which stands for that sum ofsocial absorbent called civilization. We goto match our deftness of hand and personalskill against the most refined cunning andwariness existent in natural thino;s. It isa personal contest purely, because no man
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