HAVING occasion to be in London, with a view 

 to forwarding the publication of the "ANGLER'S 

 SOUVENIK," we went out to the Lea, about the 1st 

 of October last, to have a day's fishing, in company 

 with two friends Mr. William Simpson, of the firm 

 of Simpson and Co., a native of, and resident in, 

 the great city ; and Mr. Alexander Tweddell, a far- 

 away cousin of our own, who happened to be in 

 London on a visit from the north. After a tolerable 

 day's sport, we spent the evening at the Rye House, 

 when the conversation, as might be supposed, was 

 chiefly about angling. As none of the party ex- 

 pected that the evening discourse would be made 

 public, each was unprepared to make a display ; 

 but just followed the ball of conversation as it was 

 bandied about, without detaining it until he had 

 delivered himself of a long-set speech, which pos- 

 sibly might have been in preparation for a month, 

 and found, on being held forth, to be both stale 

 and dry. A gentleman of the press, who, like our- 

 selves, had come out to have a day's fishing, at this 

 dull time of the year, when Parliament is not sitting, 

 and nothing interesting hatched either at home or 

 abroad, happened to occupy the small parlour 



