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popularity, antl this mark of appreciation of the fine sport 

 which he had shown is one of which he may well he proud. 



The late Lord Willoughby, when Mr. Barnard, was- 

 once hunting with his friend, Squire Drake. They had a 

 very good run, and killed their fox in a farmyard. A 

 Frenchman was out, probably for the first time. He rode 

 his horse at the gate into the yard, and got an imperial 

 crowner into a manure heap. He got up in a sorry 

 condition, and began abusing his horse. The squire, with 

 his usual kindness of heart, said he should like to give him 

 the brush. " He has really gone very well, but I can't 

 talk their lingo." A gentleman offered to do what he 

 could, and took the brush to the Frenchman with this neat 

 and appropriate speech : " Mom^icnr, dii jjart cle Monsieur 

 Brake fax Vhonneur dc von z presenter la queue de renard.''* 

 Monsieur Alphonse drew himself up very stiffly, and 

 responded, " Monsieur, peut-efre je ne suis pas hon Cavalier y 

 mais eejjendanf je nai pax u/erife la q/teue.'' 



From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 



During Jviiie and Jnly I fished the Sira river in Norway. The salmon in 

 this river are different from any that I have seen before, They are marked 

 all over with s])ots like a sea tront. The river is five miles in length, and 

 flows out of a lake ten miles in length, beyond which is another river flowing 

 ont of a small lake of two miles in length, at the top of which was a village,, 

 where we stayed. This lake was of extreme beanty, the water being like an 

 emerald in colour, and the bottom conld be seen at a depth of 20ft. Fifty 

 trout could be caught with the fly in it by one rod in a day, and average lib. 

 in weight. The lake and the valley beyond were surrounded by mountains 

 so steep that it was only possible to make an ascent from one place, up a gully 

 near the lake. I went up this, and was accompanied by a Norseman, and 

 remained out for two nights on the mountains. On the way up I saw my 

 brother catch two salmon in the upper river. We found reindeer stalking,, 

 which we attempted, a very unprofitaljle amusement ; and we had no tent, a.s. 

 the gully was too steep to carry one up. On our return we descended it, and 

 I asked the Norseman whether he had ever seen an avalanche fall down ir> 

 He replied that he often had seen one in winter, but never during the- 

 summer. Two days afterwards I was fishing in the lake with my brother, 

 and we landed to haA'e liuicheon on the shore opposite the gully. After a 

 short time I heard a noise which caused me to look up, and at the top of the 

 mountain above the gully I saw what looked like the upsetting of a salt 

 cellar. This was tlie l)eginning of an avalanche, and in a short time tlie 

 gully was swept by it, and we saw several fir trees knocked to jueces in a 

 moment by the rocks and stones. The whole of it fell sheer into the lake, 

 not more than 200 yards from us. There was very little snow on tlie 



