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pleasantly enough, if I addressed him ; other- 

 wise he attended strictly to business. Every 

 day he was there, morning and afternoon. 

 He, I think, had better fortune than any of 

 the others. Once I saw him laud a largo 

 and handsome " speckled trout," to the un- 

 mistakable envy of his brother anglers. Still 

 a third was a younger man, with a broad- 

 brimmed straw hat and a taciturn habit; 

 no less persevering than Number Two, per- 

 haps, but far less successful. I marveled a 

 little at their enthusiasm (there were many 

 beside these), and they, in their turn, did 

 not altogether conceal their amusement at 

 the foibles of a man, still out of Bedlam, who 

 walked and walked and walked, always with 

 a field-glass protruding from his side pocket, 

 which now and then he pulled out suddenly 

 and leveled at nothing. It is one of the 

 merciful ameliorations of this present evil 

 world that men are thus mutually entertain- 

 ing. 



These anglers were to be congratulated. 

 Ordered South by their physicians, as most 

 of them undoubtedly were, compelled to 

 spend the winter away from friends and busi- 

 ness, amid all the discomforts of Southern 



