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Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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e Monks and But the angler, of all others, can realize the Grayling , . , • r i i that It was not alone to gratify the palatethat the holy brothers left the dim cloisterfor the sunlit stream, the rosary and missalfor the rod and line, and forsook the con-secrated pile for Gods first temples—thesylvan groves. And there, rod in hand,seated on the verdure-clad bank, he sees thesilent and ghostly figures eagerly watchingthe tell-tale float, fishing all day, perhaps,from the matin song of the lark to the ves-per hymn of the nightingale, while theyare quietly drinking In and enjoying themany bountiful gifts of Nature—the merrybrook, the nodding flowers, the whisperingleaves, the grateful breeze.The Cloister And how the hooking of a grayling must and the Stream , • i i i i i i • i have stirred the stagnant blood and quick-ened the pulses of those austere souls! Andhow the languid muscles must have stiff-ened, and the deadened nerves thrilled,when the gamesome grayling leaped into60
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The Grayling the sunlight sparkling like a gem and glit-tering like a crystal! Ah ! what a happy contrast to the gloomycell and breviary it must have been to thoserigid and frigid celibates to view the ever-changing tints and the reflected glory of the lady of the streams after she had co-quettishly responded to their lures! But let us return from the musty ages of The Warningthe past, and the hoary fathers—those wiseconservators of their beloved fish—to thepresent day, with the sad vanishing of theMichigan grayling as a solemn warning.Let us, then, guard and preserve this beau-tiful creature that has come down to usthrough the centuries, hallowed by the jeal-ous care of the good fathers of yore, sothat the toiler in these stirring times may,if he will, forsake the busy marts, the ofiiceor workshop, for a period, be it ever sobrief, and journey even a thousand miles toenjoy—as the monks of old—-the catchingof a grayling. 6i THE TROUT: THE ANGLERSPRIDE THE TROUT: THE ANGLERSPRI

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