Washington Standard

A Female Izaak Walton. - An English writer tells of a lady who had always despised fishing. What attraction people could find in it was to her incomprehensible; rat catching, she said, she might bring herself possibly to take an interest in, but never fishing. At last, some years ago, she happened to go to an Irish moor with her brother and he, not knowing what to do for her amusement, sent her out fly fishing under the keeper's care. She caught three fish, and also caught her hook in her thumb and had to have it cut out; and from that day the spirit of Izaak Walton entered into her. She bought a pair of fishing stockings, and was to be seen in all weathers perseveringly wading and flogging the water, till she became an expert angler, and is now competent to discourse learnedly over the relative merits of flies, fishing rods and all such topics.