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SALMON-FISHING. 



A HEAVY rod, a cable line, treble gut, and a 

 huge fly ! This would be fine angling for the 

 giant, whose hook 



" was baited with a Dragon's tail, 

 Who sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale." 



But to us it sounds like coarse loork, — and so it 

 is ; yet the Salmon is a noble fellow, and when 

 hooked affords noble sport ; and, what is more, 

 the tackle, which is comparatively fine, will 

 raise, and with skill likewise land, more fish 

 than rougher materials. With the strongest 

 tackle we do not haul out at once even an 

 eight or ten pound Salmon. Our material can- 

 not break, it is true ; but how are we to ensure 

 the hold which the hook may have taken in the 

 fish's mouth ? Cleopatra's diver, who stuck the 

 salted fish on Antony's innocent hook, might 

 feel quite secure ; but we, who are satisfied to 

 skim the surface, to rank among the superficials, 



