io FRESH WOODS. 



rise did I get or see the whole of that cold, 

 damp evening. I have no doubt whatever 

 that the river swarms with fish. Pray don't 

 let me disparage the river ; but I want to know 

 why I cannot, or rather why I do not, catch 

 them? 



And yet how easy a thing it would have 

 been for me to have told you of the " spotted 

 beauties " that weighed down my creel ; of the 

 fights I had with a pound trout in yonder swirl, 

 and a still larger grayling in the running 

 stream. What a week of sport I might have 

 recorded ; but I refrain. I leave that kind of 

 interesting verisimilitude to more experienced 

 writers to anglers who know how to do it. 



