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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n the rivers? Assuredly almost no one but theangler, the fiy-fisherman. He has studied the habits ofthe fish, he knows that the race to be perpetuated mustvisit the rivers, and he knows that cooped up as they arein the narrow limits of the pools, packed together, as theysometimes are, as closely as they can lie, that they wouldbe absolutely at the mercy of the netter. Therefore, topreserve the race, he endeavors to secure the enactmentof wise laws for its preservation, and tries to secure theirenforcement, The poachers are a hard lot, said William, whenI had ended, and many of them would not stop atalmost any crime. You are right, I replied, they are a hard lot, andthey are becoming more and more defiant. So recklesshave they become that wardens and overseers now feelas if their lives are in danger if they try to enforce thelaws. In fact murder of wardens has already been donein one of our New England States, and also of a lady,the wife of a visiting sportsman, in your own Province of
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402 With Fly-Rod and Camera. New Brunswick, * and your Fisheries Reports imply thatmatters are growing worse and worse, the lives and prop-erty of wardens being constantly in jeopardy If the) en-deavor to enforce the laws. But lets to bed, I continued, arlsino- and enterino-the tent, we cannot sit up much longer without makinga night of it. Yes, answered Frere, our talk was so engrossingI had no idea it was so late. It did not require much time for us to get under * On the Tobique River; commenting upon which I find in the Report of theMaine Commissioners of Fisheries and Game, j888, the following extract from For-est and St?eam: It has come to pass nowadays that to chronicle all events con-nected with shooting and fishing means to devote space to reports which properlybelong in the criminal news of the daily press. It was only the other day that werecorded the murder on the Tobique, and the gross miscarriage of justice, by whichthe miscreants escaped righteous punishment. But if murd

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