GRAY BRIG 135 



Homer's heroes did so, 



Why not such as we ? 

 What are sheets and servants ? 



Superfluity ! " 



Or perhaps some favourite pages of 

 that unsurpassed prose idyll and fisher- 

 man's entomology Chalk Stream Stud- 

 ies come back to mind in which the 

 fearless spirit of the man, his keenness 

 of perception, vigour, and beauty of 

 expression, are written in every line, 

 whether he is unfolding the manifold 

 mysteries of the aquatic grasses, dis- 

 cussing a philosophic problem, or in- 

 dulging in an eulogy upon his favourite 

 Green Drakes and Yellow Sallies. 



Again, and we may think of him in the 

 saddle under the "warm, dark roof" 

 of the fir-woods, the wintry wind mak- 

 ing music above his head. Even then he 

 cannot but give the streams he loved 

 a thought " the rich river-banks, the 

 only part of the landscape where the hand 



