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found he was just twenty-seven pounds and a quarter. But, what 

 do ye think the Lord Lieutenant gev me ? The raggeen put a hand 

 in his pocket, and hands me a tinpenny bit ! } 



"Tis thrue for him/ said the never-failing Moll; c shure, I 

 have it in the box there yet ; only the child lost the key yesterday.* 

 ' ' This was enough on one day even for me ; so we started for 

 the Gap, having paid Paddy somewhat more liberally than his 

 lordship. As soon as we got out, c Did you ever/ said William, 

 ' hear such a liar ? Shoot a salmon with a patterrara a foot long ? 

 Why, the priming would blind him. Besides, how would the 

 horse do without his back-bone ?' 



' ' True. Then you do think he told lies ? 5 



c c It's my opinion/ said he, stopping and looking like a man that 

 had made up his mind, ( that you ought not to believe half of what 

 he said to-day.' " 



CHAPTER IV. 



CONTINENTAL STATES. 



IN reference to where to go in our foreign tours, much might be 

 written. The words embrace a wide range ; for where do not 

 Englishmen go ? and where is the spot they do not carry their 

 amusements with them, and enjoy them, in spite of all difficulties ? 

 There are scarcelv any great sections of the globe wherein they are 

 to be found, in wnich angling is not followed. They have, within 

 the last half century, carried rod-fishing to all the rivers of India ; 

 they have thrown the fly upon the numerous streams of South 

 Africa, six hundred miles north of Cape Town; they have sauntered: 

 on the banks of the Nile, and other neighbouring waters ; they 

 have carrried their rods and fly books to all our Australian posses- 

 sions, and to all the islands of the Pacific Ocean; they have 

 dropped their lines in the high waters of the Amazon, the Plata, 

 and the Oronoco ; they have naturalized their sport over the entire 

 North American Continent, from the southern point to the frozen 

 banks of Labrador ; they have ransacked every nook and corner of 

 Europe ; and they are now taking their rods and tackle into Asiatic 

 Tartary, Circassia, Turkey, and the Holy Land. Such being the 

 case, we confess ourselves somewhat puzzled how to set about our 

 duty of telling anglers where to go not from any lack of matter, 

 but from its great superabundance. We must, however, cut our 

 labours down to something attainable by the great majority o 

 travelling piscatorians, and dwell upon districts within a reasonable 

 and approachable distance from their own homes. 



