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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reinforcements for Fort Pickens. (search)
atmosphere. All this may be so, for aught we know — but what becomes of the worms, and the roaches? Do they suffer, or do they not? Nay, what becomes of old Izaak Walton's frogs, with which he used to fish for pike, as he tells us in this delectable passage: "And thus use your frog, that he may continue long alive. Put yf them could discourse so finely on the duty of being thankful for worldly blessings. It was this passage, doubtless, that induced Byron to denounce angling, and Walton, as the father of it, in the well known lines: "And angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint old cruel coxcomb in hisIzaak Walton sings or says: The quaint old cruel coxcomb in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it." And yet old Izaak will always be the delight of the genuine angler, let him be as humane as he may. His fresh, vivid descriptions breathe the very air of the country, and will always be attractive, as pictures of nature always are. The following passage, although an