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only partially distributed through England, and, indeed, 

 where they abound the sport of catching them is not to 

 be compared to the landing of the game and resolute 

 trout. Salmon fishers have a longer season, but have to 

 pay still more for it; and, unless young Piscator happens to 

 live near a salmon river, he will find that the getting to 

 it and getting back, quite irrespective of expenses while 

 by the water, make a very considerable addition to the 

 cost of his rod licence and wading boots. If he flies at 

 higher game and rents a river, he says adieu to economy 

 once and for ever, wherever that river may be, whether 

 in Scotland, Ireland, or Norway. But, without going as 

 far as this, the young salmon fisher will find at the end 

 of the season that his days of enjoyment have been 

 limited, and that, even if his expenses have been the 

 same, he still has a good many months on hand in which 

 he will be solaced by no sport ; and these are just the 

 months when a good reason for out-door exercise is with 

 many necessary to induce them to take it. No one, 

 for example, whose exercise is a mere constitutional, 

 hesitates much about shirking it if the weather be 

 wet. 



Now let us think of shooting. To shoot on the 

 manors of our friends is economical enough, and the 

 shooting season lasts for five months ; but the most 

 popular of youths can hardly expect the time when he is 

 shooting by invitation to equal that when he is dis- 

 engaged. Also, invitations do not always come when 

 they are wanted, and, when they do, they sometimes arrive 

 two at a time ; so that, as I have just said, the man 

 whose chief pursuit is shooting with his friends will find 

 himaelf with a good deal of time on his hands. If he 

 shoots " on his own hook," he will find his amusement an 



