The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing, Tackle-Making and Fish-Breeding
Being a Plain, Precise and Practical Explanation, of All That Is Necessary to Be Known by the Young Angler (Classic Reprint)

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Fishing is a sport especially suited to boys. It is a cleanly, healthy, open-air recreation, devoid of feverish excitements, and yet not destitute of quiet pleasures which are inexpressibly fascinating during the tender years of childhood, and, above all, entirely innocent in their tendencies. As youth succeeds childhood, the love of fishing deepens, and as maturity is attained, this love becomes a part of the man, never to be wholly cast aside. And as old age approaches, and gun and dog and saddle are regretfully retired, angling still remains the contemplative man's pastime. Thus throughout life is angling a source of comfort and pleasure, leaving no bad taste in the mouth or sting in the conscience, and being indeed unequalled by any other sport whatsoever in its purity and guilelessness. For what does Annie Trumbull Slosson's "Fishin' Jimmy" say in his quaint, homely fashion

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