454 Notes oil Spori mid Travel vi 



' As to your view on the effect of the ' absolutismus 



on the Ich ' 



The rest is private, and slightly incomprehensible. 



and good wind to haul out a hundredweight of them ? Will the rough 

 and ready Scotch fisher try a chalk trout ? Then let him kneel down 

 hatless in the open meadow, ten yards from the smooth grass-bank, 

 beside a stream averaging two feet deep and fifteen feet wide, in a 

 burning August sunset, without cloud, or air, or ripple, and extract out 

 of that narrow sheet of glass (as a friend did last August) in three 

 hours (we will give him no more) his twenty fish weighing over twenty 

 pounds ; each one of them wiser than a serpent, bolder and rounder- 

 headed than a hawk, and quite as red-fleshed as one of his Highland 

 sawmon. — Pah ! trouting (in chalk) is to salmon-fishing as grousing 

 is to buffalo-slaughter. Nevertheless, " the grapes may be sour." ' 



C. K. 



