REQUISITES FOR SUCCESSFUL FISHING. 3TI 



space as is allotted to man's carcass. You should be 

 patient, forbearing, vigorous, decided and prompt in 

 emergency, with the constitution of a water- spaniel 

 and the ingenuity of an Arkwright or a Fulton. 

 Being deficient in many, more particularly in the 

 latter requisites, I was compelled to shut up shop by 

 putting up my rod in its canvas covering, regretting 

 my bad luck, my stupidity, and last, though not least, 

 the fish that had worsted me at my own game. Not 

 being in the best of humour, of course Jock was out 

 of the way and not within hailing distance. What a 

 capital chance to vent the balance of my spleen, not at 

 all improved by the confounded flies, whose attacks 

 since 1 had ceased to be employed became more notice- 

 able ; in truth, if it were possible, I doubt not that 

 I should have liked to saddle the boy with his absence 

 being the cause of my mishap. After several times 

 shouting his name, he at length appeared, hat in hand, 

 bare-headed, with a smile of childlike satisfaction on 

 his face that, even in my irate state, I had not the heart 

 to destroy. To my inquiry where he had been, with a 

 look of satisfaction he informed me he had found and 

 harried a nest, producing his hat full of the stolen 

 treasures. After giving him a lecture on the impro- 

 priety of such a course, and the probabilities of his 

 being devoured by wolves and bears, or even cannibals, 

 if he left my side, I could not help making an inspec- 

 tion of what his hat contained. Truly, he had a hat 

 full, for upwards of a dozen pale, cinnamon-blotched 

 eggs, a trifle larger than those of the domestic 

 pigeon, lay at the bottom. The nest and parent bird, 

 from description, left me in no doubt that Master Jock 

 had deprived some luckless rock ptarmigan (Lagopus 



