THE ANGLER'S SOUVENIR. 



The notice of the " stout Highlander with a power- 

 ful tail, or, as we should call it in England, suite," 

 is a poor affair ; and Mr. Ornither was right in not 

 saying a word about the Celt being " a pot-fisher, and 

 somewhat hungry," until his tail was turned, lest 

 he should have Boused him in the pool. The sneer 

 from the Cockney (he could be nothing else), one 

 of a party who " have come nearly a thousand 

 miles for this amusement," at a Highlandman as a 

 pot-fisher, is really capital. Why, what does the 

 nighlandman feed on? Salmon, grouse, and red 

 deer ; and he might as well be laughed at as a 

 pantry sportsman, because he kills the latter for his 

 table, as sneered at because he takes his own fish. 

 We have known some trout and salmon fishers in 

 our day, and the best of them were pot-fishers ; not 

 men who fished for a living, but who walked far 

 and waded deep to bring home a prime salmon for 

 the kettle, or a creel full of trout for the frying- 

 pan. The author of " Salmonia," who is not disin- 

 clined to let us know that he enjoyed the acquaint- 

 ance of a Prince of the Blood Royal, and had lived 

 with the great cum magnis vixisse would form no 

 unapt motto for the book is more at home at 

 Denham, within the sound of "the dressing-bell 

 which rings at half-pas t four," preparatory to dinner 

 at five, than on the banks of a Highland loch, where 

 the select party is annoyed by the sight of a power- 

 ful Highlandman with his tail on. Mountain lochs 

 and streams cannot be so strictly preserved as two 



