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Y LORD the Earl has his salmon river, and when 

 he sets out with his body guard of gillies, fly tyers, 

 &c., &c., he is a considerable party. Whether he really 

 appreciates the joys of angling when he hands his 

 rod to his valet to "finish him oflf," after having had the 

 salmon's first rush, may be open to question. In some 

 sort I suppose he does, or he would not follow it. That 

 there is a quickening of the pulses and excitement in 

 the pursuit which is both healthy and invigorating there is no question, 

 but that he realises anything of the softer influences of " the contem- 

 plative man's recreation," as exemplified by the patient roach fisher 

 sitting by his silent pool, poring over his quill, I do not believe. It 

 is quite a different teeling—tm autre affair. The trout fisher has his 

 joys, but they are of an active, stirring, and perhaps more intellectual 

 kind, and the study of various sciences is often brought into play ; but 

 "the banker" bathes himself simply and solely in nature, and has in his 

 day by the river a thousand calm enjoyments which the others do not 

 experience. 



Who cannot or does not sympathise with and almost envy the 



