Excerpt from Louisiana Conservationist, Vol. 8: September, 1956 For many years past, it has been the practice and custom for dads to take boys fishing, but more and more girls are taking part in athletics and outdoor sports, and that is as it should be. Girls, as well as boys, will derive great benefit, both mentally and physically, from having taken part in out door activities, especially fishing with dad. Through participation in outdoor sports, much is to be learned and gained from nature's fabulous and bountiful storehouse. Sitting on the bank of a small creek, water sparkling like diamonds in a mid-day sun, pole in hand, anticipating the strike of a bream or small mouth bass, losing one's self completely in the thought of what might happen, is one of the greatest forms of mental and physical relaxation imaginable. Little girls like to go fishing as well as little boys and it is a remark able fact that they become equally as adept in the piscatorial art as their brothers, so there is really no reason Why you shouldn't take your little girl fishing, providing, of course, that she wants to go. Strangely enough no one seems to have a fixed idea as to what little girls want. For that matter few people have any conception of What Is a Girl. Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angel-shine about them and though it wears thin sometimes, there is always enough left to lasso your heart - even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best 'clothes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.