"Of all sports ever sported, commend me to angling. It is the wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best; the safest, cheapest, and, in all liklihood, the oldest of pastimes."
William T. Porter, 1840s
Blackfies, Mosquitoes, and Punkies: a cosmopolitan police, detailed by Divine Providence to guard the great hunting park of the Republic from the incursions of cockney poachers and murderers of deer in the summer. Long may they wave!"
North Woods Walton Club Toast, 1858
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