xii CONTENTS. 



THIRD DAY. 



FAGS 



Morning fishing — Effect of shadows in fishing — Anecdotes illus- 

 trating the effect of sunshine — Swallows . . . 77 — 82 



FOURTH DAY. 



Scenery — Loch Maree — Eagles — The inn — The river Ewe — Sea 

 trout — Poaching Highlander — Salmon — Cause offish heing 

 drowned — Salmon — Death hy suffocation — Nature of pain — 

 Instances of death without pain — Sea trout — Crimping — The 

 dinner — The double snipe — Value of temperance in eating 

 and drinking — Wading in boots a bad practice — Salmon and 

 trout compared — Varieties of salmon . . . 83 — 114 



FIFTH DAY. 



Salmon fishing — Produce of a morning's sport — Rivers of Norway 

 and Sweden — English rivers — Salmon rivers — Scotch rivers 

 — Irish rivers — The Sabbath day — Instincts — Instincts to 

 animals what revelation is to man .... 115 — 148 



SIXTH DAY. 



Flies — Hooks — Salmon of the Ewe — Sense of smelling in 

 animals — Salmon fishing with parr — Food of salmon — Indi- 

 cations of rainy weather — Omens .... 149 — 169 



SEVENTH DAY. 



Grayling — Anatomy of the grayling— Grayling fishing— Scenery 

 — Habits of the grayling — Grayling rivers — Baits for gray- 

 ling — Generation of eels — Migration of eels — The congei 

 cel 170—200 



EIGHTH DAY. 



Scenery — Natural history— Origin of the common house-fly — 

 —Bees and ants— The libellula— Ephemerae— Michaelmas 

 daisy— Humble bee— Thoughts on death, suggested by this 



. 201—221 



