EXCITEMENT OF THU SrORT. 369 



The fly is kept skipping from wave to wave, as the boat 

 laveers, or beats to windward, and the fish thi'owing itself out 

 of the sea to secure it with its beautiful bright sides flashing 

 like virgin silver in the sunlight, and when struck, constant]}^ 

 dashing away with the whole of the line from the whizzing 

 reel, and giving a long run down wind, there is perhaps no 

 sport in existence more full of pleasant excitement and 

 adventure. 



Nor when taken is the prisoner unworthy of the pains it has 

 cost to kill him ; for although smaller, he is in all other respects 

 nearly of equal excellence with the true Salmon, and occupies a 

 place second to him alone, with the judicious epicure. 



Right well would it repay some of our gallant yachters to 

 turn the heads of their tight crafts easterly, and bear away, as 

 the old song has it, with a wet sheet and a flowing sail, for the 

 rock-bound shores of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, for once 

 there, right hospitable would they find their welcome, and their 

 sport right royal. 



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