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AVotton, could not command a decent respect from old Sam 

 Johnson, or persuade Venator that angling and hunting had 

 any right to be mentioned in the same breath. It is different 

 now. There may be no precedents of recognition in the 

 musty past, but the fruitful present utters no doubtful sound 

 at least, so far as Salmon fishing is concerned. Salmon 

 fishing has been ennobled as a sport by Her Royal Highness, 

 the daughter of the Queen of England and Empress of India, 

 and conjointly by her noble spouse, the Marquis of Lome, 

 late Governor-General of Canada. With her own royal 

 hands the Princess Louise has captured a twenty-five pound 

 Salmon on the river Restigouche, and sent it home to her 

 Queen-mother, with the Jock Scott fly which caught it fixed 

 in its jaws, as a trophy of her prowess, and affidavit that the 

 feat was all her own! 



No lukewarm sportsman is His Excellency, the Marquis. 

 It was my good fortune once to be privately presented to him 

 on the eve of an excursion down-river. It was at Quebec, 

 on the occasion of his inaugurating the Dufferin Terrace, in 

 1879. I found the royal party on board the steamer Druid, 

 inspecting cabin quarters which they were to occupy en route 

 to the Restigouche, where they were going to fish. The 

 Druid was a government vessel, commanded by Captain Mar- 

 mion, with whom it had been my pleasure to make several 

 voyages around the Gulf of St. Lawrence as many as fifteen 

 years before. While I was pleasantly engaged in a friendly 

 chat with the veteran mariner, my friend, J. U.Gregory, Esq., 

 the Naval Agent at Quebec, came up the companion-way in 

 company with Major De Wintor, His Excellency's aide-de- 

 camp, and having presented me, announced that the Marquis 

 would be pleased to see me presently. I held one of Abbey & 

 Grubrie'soreide Salmon reels in my hand, and literally "stood 

 by the wheel," like a true helmsman, determined to shirk no 

 duty. Accordingly, when I came to a front face and present, 

 His Excellency took me graciously by the hand, and we occu- 



