Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TOWN-MEETING BLUE ROCK POOL As for my chosen pursuit of angling, (which I follow with diligence when not interrupted by less important concerns), I rejoice with every true fisherman that it has a greeting of its own, and of a most honourable antiquity. There no record of its origin. But it is quite certain that since the days of the Flood . . . two honest and good- natured anglers have never met each other by the way. without crying out, "What luck?"—Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman's Luck. chapter{Section 4 THE TOWN-MEETING AT BLUE ROCK POOL JDN'T know that fish held town- meetings ? That shows how your education has been neglected. A town-meeting is an assembly; fish assemble; therefore, fish hold town-meetings. Isn't that conclusive? But the fact is one of experience as well as of logical deduction. It can be " mediated " by the faith of every disciple of the immortal Izaak. This is the unadorned and veracious account of one of these piscatorial gatherings, held on an August day in Caine River, New Brunswick, seventeen miles from the nearest house. They had been gathering for days. Prominent citizens were there from Big Rock, five miles down the river, and almost every inhabitant of the Forks, three miles up stream, had answered to roll-call. A large numberof youngsters who had lately taken up their abode in Blue Rock Brook seemed to think that this was some sort of circus, and had to be nipped into order by their more sedate seniors. The main business on hand was to provide for the " summer schools " which had won a deserved reputation for excellence long before the University of Chicago opened its doors. It was customary, also, to elect a path-master at this time, that the highways might be looked after and kept free from grass. The Hon. S. Maximus Fontain...