...a book which will live as long as the love of country life exists. He was accustomed to say that " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."] f" IN these flowery meads would be ; These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling...

...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ; Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. And who that is enamored of piscatorial pleasures, and occasionally seeks the shady banks of some sequestered...

...At the commencement dinner, in 1869, Mr. Samuel Burnham, of Boston, said that Dr. Boteler remarked of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." And when Mr. Burnham applied the illustration to the President, the company accepted its fitness by their...

...silver streams which we now see glide so quietly by us. Indeed, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteter said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.' " We shall reverse the ordinary method of writers upon Angling, and teach our readers, first, WHAT...

...contriving plots, then he possesses himself in quietness;" and it is truly said of angling, what Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made...better berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if we maybe judges, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling, nor, it may...

...strawberries. The strawberry is, for a child, the king of fruits. I)r Boteler once quaintly said of it, that " doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," — meaning thereby that the strawberry is, as a fruit, as near perfection as anything in this world...

...authors (as the true angler's ought to be), those hours must be provocative of much profit and delight. ' God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling,' says the patriarch of the craft. Besides this, fly-fishing so easily connects itself with poetry, art,...

...Poetry, men are to be born s0. Part i. Ch, I. Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Part 1. Ch. 4. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler1 said of strawberries...more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Part i. Ch. 5. Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out...

...which we now see glide so gently by us. Indeed my good scholar, we may say of anglers, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries — ' doubtless God could have...berry, but, doubtless God never did ' ; and so (if 1 might judge) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling ! " The river...

...Complete Angler, where it is written " Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of Angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ' Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.'" This Dr. Boteler was Dr. Win. Butler, a celebrated but eccentric physician, born at Ipswich about 1535....