OF A SALMON. 45 



The Chester Causeway ! What a wonderful 

 thing it is that a salmon should ever leap the 

 Causeway ? 



"Wonderful? Why? what's the causeway to 

 a salmon ? Is it not their -nature to leap ? 

 Besides, look at Chester Causeway, what is it 

 after all ? Why a trout could jump it easy, let 

 alone a ' salmo salar.' " 



Wait a moment, my good sir: "bide a wee," 

 as our neighbours say. In the meantime we 

 will not talk just now about the Chester Cause- 

 way; but remember that we are going to give 

 our friend the meeting at the point of Ayr. 

 He is making his way along the wide estuary, 

 intending, no doubt, to call at Parkgate or Flint 

 by the way. But he is too late this tide : the 

 ebb is far advanced, and the receding waters 

 warn him of sundry spreading sandbanks which 

 increase rapidly in extent, and he very wisely 

 wends his way into the secure deeps of Dawpool, 

 there to repose till the morrow. 



While he lies there let us take a look at 

 this wide waste of sands, stretching across for 

 some three or four miles between that long 

 low line of white houses, videlicet, Parkgate ; and 

 the grey crumbling mass of masonry, scarcely 

 distinguishable in the distance from the green 



