JASl'KK ST. AlUYN. 2l>0 



H chai)trr of n novelette now in conrse of pn1)licati()ii in 

 (Jrahani's e.vctlknt niaj^aziiie, entitled Jasper St. Aubyn. I do 

 this not e-joti.stically, nor altojjether to save time and troubli-, 

 init rather heeanse it contains as correct an account of the 

 mode to he pursued in easting for tlic Sahuon, hooking;, phiyin{^, 

 aiul killing him in an Iln^'lish river, as 1 am eapahh- of writ inj^; 

 and because the variety of the narrative style may possibly 

 prove a relief to the reader, after the drier routine of more 

 didactic writ in-;. 



It is scarcely, perhaps, necessary to add that the mode of 

 tishin<j^ for the Salmon in England and America arc identical, 

 the tackle and implements the same, ami the same tlics the 

 most killing in all waters, i>f whieh singular fact, and other 

 nnitters connected with whieh, 1 shall say more hereafter. 

 Nor, I presume, need 1 apologise to my reader for the slight 

 anachronism which has attributed to an ideal personage sup- 

 posed to live in the age of the Second James all the modern 

 improvements and advantages possessed by the anglers of the 

 present day, and all tlu- skill and science whieh were et-itaiiily 

 not to be found at that time in any Srilmon-risher, not except- 

 ing even good (juaiut Father Izaak, whose maxims on Salmon- 

 tishing, and indeed on tly-fishing in general, savour far more of 

 nnticpiity than of utility. 



" It was JUS fair a morning of July as ever ilawned in the blue 

 summer sky ; the sun ns yet had risen but n little way above 

 the waves of fresh green foliage which formed the liorizon of 

 the woodland scenery surrounding Widecomb Manor; and his 

 heat, which promised ere mid-day to become excessive, »as 



