50 THE ADVENTURES 



to welcome any ten of them alive at Dee Bridge 

 to-morrow." 



But now we will suppose, if you please, that 

 our salmon has recruited his strength by a 

 night's repose in Dawpool, and that you have 

 passed quite as refreshing a one at the Eoyal 

 Hotel at Chester and have no objection to 

 reply to the call of the ' boots/ as he pushes a 

 candle inside your room door, at 3 o'clock a.m. ; 

 that you accordingly rouse up to a cup of coffee, 

 and are off by the early Holyhead train to 

 Queen's Ferry, some seven miles down the river. 

 Day breaks as you arrive at the station : we 

 take our way to the river side there to cross by 

 the Ferry boat (scot free, 'tis a royal ferry) with 

 the intention of walking along the embankment 

 back to Chester to a regular good Scotch break- 

 fast. 



Tis a beautiful April morning. A strong 

 south-west breeze comes steadily up the river, 

 bringing along the flood-tide the Flint and 

 Bagillt boats, with their cargoes of fish and 

 market women, curling the surface of the river 

 with a fine wavy ripple, that makes you dream 

 of throwing a fly upon some Irish river. 'Tis 

 of no use here ; the salmon are never known to 

 rise until they have reached the streams far 

 above Chester/ 



