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often as ye plaise if ye'll laugh yerself at what ye 

 say. Shure an it's ivery jintleman that would be 

 telling tales when the say is silent and the fish don't 

 bite his bait. I clean disremimbers where the 

 jintleman was for coming from that tould us that 

 this was the best of all the worlds. Was ye for 

 remimbering, Mike?" 



" I was forgitting, too," said Mike, "but it was 

 ' ye sinner ' he called ye when he gave ye the 

 whiskey." 



" Be aisy, Mike, it was meself that said to him : 

 * Shure thin it's a greater traveller than meself ye 

 are, sorr.' 



" ' Well, I guess I've travelled some,' said he. 



" ' And are the worlds much aloike, sorr, and are 

 there any ye haven't yet seen ? ' said I. 



" It was thin he handed me his flask, saying : 



" ' Liquor, ye sinner ? ' ' 



"Thrue for ye," said Mike, "and wasn't it me- 

 self had no taste of the same ? " 



It is difficult to decide under which of the vary- 

 ing conditions of the different days we fished at 

 Carna our captain shone the most. I admired his 

 easy and regular stroke that gave the boat a move- 

 ment that suited the fish until they had mouthed 

 the lure, and equally effective was the instantaneous 

 and momentarily increased speed that securely 

 hooked the quarry. I think I say " I think"- he 

 was most like himself and most to be admired when 

 the waves ran high and, with daring skill, he sailed 

 the boat scaringly near foam-capped rocks, sheer- 

 ing her off in the nick of time, and bringing tugging 

 fish from the seething waters which we fishers 

 had to play while crossing waves that tossed and 



