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it is to defame and satirize the
enoyments of 'the noble arte of Angling!


A Day with a Rod.


" Fish is not fiesh-nor are the pgorensties of
the one adapted to the nature and capacity of
the other"


FIsHING-The word implies pleasure,
pastime, gentle exercise-a slow walk
through meadow at sunrise, with lots of
gesliculation by the shady side of a cool
little river, whose grassy banks are dotted
with daisies and wet with dew-the bright
water trinkets dropped by the Els and
Fairies that danced till daylight 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 get up very early,
Just before you want to, and while you do
not feel like tito put on the clothes you
F." 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 were married--the shirt
you slept in last night will do, till you get
back, for nobody will see you or know YOU
if they do-you will look SO queer. You
will never feel like whistling so early in
the day, and it is so still in the house it
"mght wake the baby,' so softly tread the
stair carpet.


Mullins" milk toast!" or " a hot
relish l'-you certainly can't expect such
things at that time o. day-the cook saws
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 10 bring it, aud the tinder is
all out, too. The cows must be driven
home before they can be milked, and there
is no one TO milk them.


You must be asonable-take crack
er or piece of last nights cold shortcake
your aunt's parrot would be glad enough
of such breakfast-and if you are trxla
fond of fishing, when you ge. in the mldsr
of your sport you will never think of wha
you have had or have not had, but rather
of the nice dinner of fish, BY and bve.
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, and what can
have made you so hungry. a


The old straw hat you wore last summer
is just the thing. Don't you wonder you
never thought of it before? II only wants
band TO be as good as new. Theee i,
nobody up Just now, none to help you tc
hunt for ribbon with which to make one
so do as your grandmother told you to
when you were boy" take anything, >
yes, piece of list will DO.


There, take your rod, and see whether
it would not have been as well 20 have
ov erhauled ii last night. Faith is lady
who trusts to her maids-Precaution is
man-servant who sees that all things are
ready. He ties double-knots, always, ant
never puts en- his clothes without look
ing at his buttons. The consequence i
that he never drops off the shoes that hC
is walking in, and seldom is seen Chasin!
that greasy mixture OF pine wood and no
water, called locomotive. You hav,
| trusted Faith, next time you will try Pre-
caution, and not have to be trying on ring
when you ought TO have been diggiD,
worms back o.! the barn, or getting some
thing out of the deInijohn.


Now for it. At the top of rail fence
there is a sharp place, and thorns will tea
either skin or old clothes, that is settled
and you need not stop to try the expert
ment, but get along over that meadow q
fast as you can, for before your happines
begins to be complete you have that swan
to pass. There is no Long Island Rail
road to the brook you seek, and the DIrec
tors have not even contemplated tunnt
under the black bog you are staring a


so 90 ahead and remember Lots wife
step lively. How your legs are 8 sucke
in'' by the mire! Put on your Shoes again


Now mark me-all day you will hear


"squashing" kind of noise. 1t is produce


by the effort you are making TO reduc
swamp mad TO butter by churning it


your shoes. They would not have been $


heavy or SO musical ifihey had been mad
so large. Moisture, if il is black, won


hurt your feet, but it may disturb the ha


mony of your domestic sphere, and pc


haps compromise your character, an


make bad work for your wife's honsemal'


as you endeavor to s'step lightly" over tn


carpet, when you are trying 10 "c clip il


up stairs, after your work is done, and yc


have returned, "a soldier tired of War


a!arms'' But it viii do you no harm, ar
may help your feet The mud will rub {
] when it is dry, and leave your skin al
joints, and all the extremities, as fair al
white as young turnips after they a
scraped--you will be winter and softer f
2 this expedition. You may not thInk


when you tear eff your nasty stockings
| see what ii is that smarts so, and count 4
4 raw places-but it is so nevertheless.