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night? A midsummer's night is lovely, very- 

 lovely ; but to enjoy its beauties, — to feel 

 its delights, we must not have a Moth on 

 a hook ; the Moth and the hook are too 

 terrestrial. 



Away ! ye Elves of Darkness ! — Give me 

 daylight and honest anghng ! — A clear con- 

 science — clear hours — clear water! and then, 



" Row, brothers, row ! " 



or, which I should very much prefer to the 

 burden of the Canadian Boat-song — 



Fish, brothers, fish ! 



In the dark, the amusement of killing a 

 good fish is — nul ; for, with a large hook and 

 thick gut, he can be lugged out without cere- 

 mony. You see nothing of him till he is 

 landed ! It is just like smoking ; the whole 

 pleasure lies in seeing the smoke. Now let 

 me appeal, in all seriousness, to the determined 

 smoker. Have you the same pleasure in 

 smoking in the dark as in the light ? To be 

 convinced — try it. Do you not puff away 



