20 A YEAR OF LIBERTY; OR, 



flows the Laune, always happily unconscious of fixed engines ; and 

 public conveyances pass every day, enabling a nomadic sportsman to 

 reach any one of the number for half-a-crown. Salmon are taken 

 in this river by drafting, but Monday belongs to the rod, and an 

 angler would have reason to complain if he did not on that day 

 " make a death." 



Though never an intimate, the Laune is a very old acquaintance, 

 and many a time in spring, summer, and autumn have we sauntered 

 together for a pleasant hour. The general character of the river is 

 particularly inviting ; neither timber nor scrub offers any impedi- 

 ment. The water is rarely discoloured, and seldom low characters 

 common to all rivers which drain large lakes. 



Castlepool and GaiTynalanna ! it is pleasant even to write your 

 names and I inscribe them here just as Hodge or Joe might carve 

 his sweetheart's name on tree or stile. 



The tide met us about three miles and a half from Killorglin, so 

 we put up the rod, and set off at a round pace, in hopes of gaining 

 time to get a crust and an "air of the fire" before our party arrived. 

 The Ventry Arms is comfortable, and the proprietor shows a due 

 appreciation of visitors, by reserving five pools for their especial use 

 and benefit. A stranger to the country would do well to make 

 Killorglin his head-quarters. 



KeiTy, as its name implies, is pre-eminently a region of rock and 

 water. Lough Currane, Lough Scall, Lough Carra, Guttane, the 

 lakes of Killamey, and a host of others, whilst justifying the 

 nomenclature, offer no common inducement to artist and angler. 



Few waters in this county are closed to the wandering sportsman 

 who asks pennission ; at least, I have found it so, and desire grate- 

 fully to acknowledge the many courtesies so often received. 



To conduct the reader to all the streams in this district would be 

 impossible ; we will therefore, as we jog along to Lady Headley's, 

 point out some of the best, premising that later in the season, when 

 the grilse and trout arrive, we hope (remember we do not promise) 

 to spend some pleasant days on two or three of them. 



The rivers of Kerry are numerous, but of no great length. The 



