The Selective Faculty or Copy-Catism If Luve is represented us sight-Joss, it ie simply because he has a obit of bringing very incongruous persons together. But, Love's eyes and the eyes of his followers ure really only bandaged, und they always peep a little underneath, if they please. Taste, on the enn: trary—the sort defined ax. "the power of perceiving and relishing txeellence"—is supposed to be ceedingly far-sighted; yet, most of the people who follow taste do 0 with the blindness of bats and the mwwknost of sheep, This, ten But there is one sport which does not depend upon encouraging bands, the plaudits of onlookers or the shouts of the players themselves for {ts pursuit, Indeed one may not even talk while wooing the speckled beauties of the brook to their fate, Since fishes do not Have ears and presumably do not Aear, it would feom that this precaution was uneceasary, but it is pleasant to think thotian edly sherman fist invent; a this soothing myth and linpowed abun ie fellowes thus. greatly jadding to the peace and serenity of fife and affording a refuge for "all [that are lovers of virtue, and dare {trust in his Providence, and be quiet nd.go a-angling Let's fish.
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