THE ANGLER'S SOUVENIR. 



which was only separated from that in which we 

 were seated by a wooden partition, and heard the 

 whole of our conversation, which, as he had no 

 company, he carefully took down in shorthand, in 

 the regular way of business, intending to interweave 

 a few of his own graces, and show up the party in a 

 newspaper or magazine, just as he might feel him- 

 self in the humour to cut down or extend the article. 

 He left betimes in the morning, to save the seven 

 o'clock coach at Hoddesdon, after giving to the 

 waiter the following note, with orders to deliver it 

 at breakfast-time, addressed, 



" To the Piscatory Trio, Eye House. 

 " Gentlemen, 



" Happening last night to occupy the small 

 parlour adjoining that in which you held your 

 piscatory session, I was an auditor, ri'Mlgre moi, 

 of the whole of your conversation ; of which, as I 

 was alone and had nothing better to do, I took 

 ample notes, in a professional way, with a view of 



furnishing either a quizzical report for the 



Newspaper, or a sprightly article for the 



Magazine, as fancy might suggest on re -examination 

 of my materials. 



"I do not, however, wdsh to act towards you 

 with incivility, more especially as the young Scotch- 

 man, when I met him at the water-side yesterday, 

 was so kind as to offer me a cigar from his box, 

 when, seeing that he had steel and tinder with him, 



