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Fishing And Shooting Sketches

Stok Kodu
9786052883662
Boyut
14x21
Sayfa Sayısı
80
Baskı
1
Basım Tarihi
2018-04
Resimleyen
7cce6baa8e8f4d2dbb0b624c91bc6e18
Kapak Türü
Ciltsiz
Kağıt Türü
2. Hamur
Dili
İngilizce
9786052883662
572681
Fishing And Shooting Sketches
Fishing And Shooting Sketches
70.55

“…Generous fishermen cannot fail to look with pity upon the benighted persons who have no better conception than this of the uses and beneficent objects of rational diversion. In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune-chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen. There can be no doubt that the promise of industrial peace, of contented labor and of healthfulmoderation in the pursuit of wealth, in this democratic country of ours, would be infinitely improved if a large share of the time which has been devoted to the concoction of trust and business combinations, had been spent in fishing.

The narrow and ill-conditioned people who snarlingly count all fishermen as belonging to the lazy and good-for-nothing class, and who take satisfaction in describing an angler's outfit as a contrivance with a hook at one end and a fool at the other, have been so thoroughly discredited that no one could wish for their more irredeemable submersion. Statesmen, judges, clergymen, lawyers and doctors, as well as thousands of other outspoken members of the fishing fraternity,have so effectively given the lie to these revilers of an honest and conscientious brotherhood that a large majority have been glad to find refuge in ignominious silence…”

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