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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ndold trousers, bare-headed and happy, acounsellor or barrister learned in thelaw, a journalist of great culture and widetravel. But that woman stared at theIndian fishing, and asked him, Mr.Indian, are you catching any fish? Shedid not know she was interviewing a rarewoods-tramp who could have talked Ib-sen and esoteric Buddhism with her, andthen cooked her a meal fit for the gods. and seek a late dinner that was yet twentymiles away. She would have found auniquely excellent raconteur under thatdirty fishing suit, a man reeking withhumor and good fellowship, a model host,a true Briton, and great lover of anyEnglish lord, just through his worshipof the nobility. How odd it seemed tome, and how I appreciated his thoughtfulcourtesy in that camp, for I was far fromwell. How I studied and liked him, adyed-in-the-wool Englishman, who turn-ed his horse to the left as he met a car-riage on a Vancouver Island highway,and who liked to tease me by explaininghow much better Canadian judges, cus-
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Victim with his son at his right. Son of Rector of the English Church at Chemainus, VancouverIsland, in front of tent. i-erved it on tin plates, with tea (thatomnipresent English beverage) andtoast, fried trout, honey, and countrybutter, a wild bird or two, and berriesand fruits that certainly would have madeher sit-up and take notice. And hewould have done all that with a modestgrace that would have made her eyes popwith astonishment. But he let her pass toms, citizenship, patriotism, and man-hood are than we have in the States.He reminded me that crime costs UncleSam every year almost one and a halfbillions of dollars,* that many of theUnited States each have more man-slay-ers than the whole British Empire, in-cluding India, the Isles, Canada, andAustralasia; and that, while Georgia and • The 1910 census of the United States will show about 00.000.000 population. So each man. woman and child is paying more than $15 yearly In the American Republic because of its crimes. More than 1

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