A Day with a Rod.
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,, enjoyments of "the noble arle ofAnging"
e A Day with a Rod.


> Fish is not Aesh-nor are the propensities o
: the one adapted to the nature aad capacity o
0 the other"


i FIsHING-The word implies pleasure
u pasime, gentle exercise--a slow walk


through meadow at sunrise, with lots OF
Q gestculation by the shady side of cool
little river, whose grassy banks are dotted


with daisies and wet with dew---the bright


water irinkets dropped by the Els and
Fairies that danced till day light and laugh
ed themselves off, forgetting their jewels.


The sun will take care OF them when he
spies them, and the Zephyrs will have


them on before night.


TO go fishing, is to gel up very early,


just before you want to, and while you do


not feel like Tito put on the clothes you


"never liked at ALL" and only kept be-


cause they were "too good to throw away"


with the shoes your friends laughed you


out OF before you we're married--ihe shirt


you slept in last night will do, till you ge,


back, for nobody will see you or know YOU


if they do-you will look SO queer. You


will never feel like whsting so early 10


the day, and it is so still in the house it


"might wake the baby,"s so softly tread the


stair carpet


Mufinsm "milk toast!" or ga hot


relish"-you certainly can't expect such


things at that time o. day--lhe cook says


so, and besides all that, there is no fire


the wood is green, and then it is not cut,
and if it was it is not split--and besides,


there is no one to bring it, aud the finder is
all out, too. The cows must be driven
home before they can be mlked, and there
is no one to milk them.


You must be reasonable-t n crack |
er or piece of last nights cold shortcake |
your aun's parrot would be glad enough !
of such breakiast-and if you are truly
fond of fishing, when you ge, in the midst
of your sport You will never think of what
you have had or have not had, but rather
of the nice dinner of fish, BY and bye,
when you get home and sit with your chill.
dren on your knee, and your wife looking
you in the face, and wondering how you
became so black and ugly, ard what can
have made YOU so hungry.


The old straw ha. you wore last summer
is just The thing. Don't you wonder you
never thought of it before? 1t only wants
a band TO be as good as new. Theee is
nobody up Just now, none 10 help you 10
hunt for ribbon with which to make one


so do as your grandmother told you TO,
when you were boy" take anything" {
yes, a peco Of list will do.


There, take your rod, and see whether :
II would not have been as well TO have I
overhauIed ii last night. Faith is a lady I
who trusts to her maids-Precautio is q
who sees that all things are
ready. He ties double.knols, always, and !
never puts en- his clothes without look. i
ng at his buttons. The consequence is q
hat he never drops off the shoes that he
S walking in, and seldom is seen chasing S
hat greasy mixture OF pine wood and hot d
water, called a locomotive: You have o
rusted Faith, next time you will try Pre-. Il
'aution, and not have to be trying on rings g
when you ought 10 have been digging y
worms back OF the barn, or getting some is
hing out of the demijohu. I


Now for il. At the top of rail fences a
here is a sharp place, and thorns will tear d
iither skin or old clothes, that is settled
md you need not stop to try The expert. P
nent, but get along over that meadow as 10
ast as you can, for before your happiness "
'egins 10 be complete you have that swamp f1
o pass. There is no Long Island Rail al
Dad 10 the brook you seek, and the DIrec. 70
ors have not even contemplated tunnel pi
nder the black bog you are staring al, y,
o go. ahead and remember Lots wife m
tep lively. How your legs are " sucked m
NJ by the mire! Put on your Shoes again. VI
Vow mark me-all day you viii bear III
kind Of noise. II produced h
y the effort you are making 10 reduce III
wamp mud 10 butter by churning il in W
our shoes They would not have been so rn
eavy or so musical ifihey had been nude W
. large. Moisture, il il is black, won't ey
uu your feet, but it may disturb the har- "
lony Of your domestic sphere, and per. dl
ups SVhPi"H'eO DouI CniTuCieTs Hnu ny
lake bad work for your wife's housemaid, III
) you endeayor to "stcp lightly" over the 20
arpet, when you are trying 10 " clip it, 10,
p stairs, after your work is done, aud you gil
ave returned, "a soldier tired Of Wars iol
arms" But twill do you no harm, and 20
Iay help your feet. The mud viii rub Off be
hen j, is dry, and leave your skin and -
'inis, and all the extremiIies, as fair and he
hl6 as young iurnips afer they are co
.raped--you will be whittier and softer for an
lis expedition. You may not think so va
hen you tear Of your nasty stockings 10 ri
10 what il is that smarts so, and count the clt
Nv places i ie so nevertheless. oil
You will nol be able to catch that Bob. the
,k, so lei him balance and lwiitsr on that ik