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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley
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Happy,
especially,
is
the
sportsman
who
is
also
a
naturalist:
for
as
he
roves
in
pursuit
of
his
game,
over
hills
or
up
the
beds
of
streams
where
no
one
but
a
sportsman
ever
thinks
of
going,
he
will
be
certain
to
see
things
noteworthy,
which
the
mere
naturalist
would
never
find,
simply
because
he
could
never
guess
that
they
were
there
to
be
found.
I
do
not
speak
merely
of
the
rare
birds
which
may
be
shot,
the
curious
facts
as
to
the
habits
of
fish
which
may
be
observed,
great
as
these
pleasures
are.
I
speak
of
the
scenery,
the
weather,
the
geological
formation
of
the
country,
its
vegetation,
and
the
living
habits
of
its
denizens.
A
sportsman,
out
in
all
weathers,
and
often
dependent
for
success
on
his
knowledge
of
“what
the
sky
is
going
to
do,”
has
opportunities
for
becoming
a
meteorologist
which
no
one
beside
but
a
sailor
possesses;
and
one
has
often
longed
for
a
scientific
gamekeeper
or
huntsman,
who,
by
discovering
a
law
for
the
mysterious
and
seemingly
capricious
phenomena
of
“scent,”
might
perhaps
throw
light
on
a
hundred
dark
passages
of
hygrometry.
The
fisherman,
too,—
what
an
inexhaustible
treasury
of
wonder
lies
at
his
feet,
in
the
subaqueous
world
of
the
commonest
mountain
burn!
All
the
laws
which
mould
a
world
are
there
busy,
if
he
but
knew
it,
fattening
his
trout
for
him,
and
making
them
rise
to
the
fly,
by
strange
electric
influences,
at
one
hour
rather
than
at
another.
Many
a
good
geognostic
lesson,
too,
both
as
to
the
nature
of
a
country’s
rocks,
and
as
to
the
laws
by
which
strata
are
deposited,
may
an
observing
man
learn
as
he
wades
up
the
bed
of
a
trout-stream;
not
to
mention
the
strange
forms
and
habits
of
the
tribes
of
water-insects.
Moreover,
no
good
fisherman
but
knows,
to
his
sorrow,
that
there
are
plenty
of
minutes,
ay,
hours,
in
each
day’s
fishing
in
which
he
would
be
right
glad
of
any
employment
better
than
trying
to
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