may happen again. The performance of them Is 

 still more pleasant ; they call forth strategy and 

 strength — the one tone-restoring to the tissues 

 of the brain, the other stimulating to the blood 

 and inviaroratino; to the muscles. Seek health — 

 the frreatest gift of heaven — where? Aloncrside 

 the salmon- streams of England's isles — amidst 

 the rural toto jpenitus orhe divisos Britannos, 

 whether they be Saxon, Gael, Celt, or ancient 

 Briton. I could say more in laud of fly-fishing 

 for salmon ; but the immortal admonition of 

 " painting the lily and gilding refined gold,'* 

 warns me to eschew superfluous embellishment. 



The Salmon-Fisher's Kod. — Before I pro- 

 ceed to teach how this angling apparatus must be 

 used, I shall state what it should be in shape, 

 size, material, and so forth. No salmon fly-rod 

 need ever be longer than seventeen and a half 

 feet, and should never be shorter than sixteen. 

 With two well-made rods of the above lengths, 

 the widest and narrowest salmon-rivers may be 

 properly fished, and salmon and salmonid?e of 

 every size satisfactorily captured, I am fully 

 aware of the advantages of very long and very 

 powerful rods in wide rivers, and in strong hands ; 

 and I admit, cceteris paribus, that a strong man, 

 six feet in height, with a rod twenty feet long. 



