ARROW-FISHING. 
In treating of the most beautiful and novel sport of 
arrow-fishing, its incidents are so interwoven with ten 
thousand accessories, that we scarce know how to sepa- 
rate our web, without either breaking it, or destroying a 
world of interest hidden among the wilds of the Amer- 
ican forest. 
The lakes over which the arrow-fisher twangs his 
bow, in the pleasant spring-time; have disappeared long 
before the sere and yellow leaf of autumn appears, and 
the huntsman’s horn, and the loud-mouthed pack, clamor 
melodiously after the scared deer upon their bottoms. 
To explain this phenomenon, the lover of nature 
must follow us until we exhibit some of the vagaries of 
the great Mississippi, and, having fairly got our “ flood 
and field” before us, we will engage heartily in the 
sport. 
