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that no good salmon-fishing is to be expected in 

 Wales. 



FISHER. Then off with you next spring, either 

 to Connemara or Inverness-shire. " Hope deferred 

 maketh the heart sick ; " so if you have conceived 

 an affection for salmon-fishing, let not your long- 

 deferred wishes steal away the roses from your 

 cheek, you have now a colour like a peony, 

 Simpson, and present you with wrinkled crow- 

 toes in exchange. As soon as the green leaves 

 begin to appear on the quickset hedge of your 

 garden, start by the first steamer for Aberdeen, 

 and thence find your way as you best can to the 

 Spey, the Ness, the Beauly, the Shinn, the Oykell, 

 the Ainag, the Cassly, or the Carron ; and if you 

 have not sport to your satisfaction, between 10th 

 April and 10th May, cross the country to Port- 

 patrick, take the steamer to Donaghadee, and then 

 set off for Connemara as fast as you can hie, and 

 you will be there time enough to have a month's 

 good fishing in the Costello, the Spiddle, or 



" The sweet flowing river of Ballinahinch." 



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I should like extremely to visit Connemara myself, 

 " the next parish to America," as the Angler in 

 Ireland says, 



" Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, 

 Singula dam capti circumvectamur amore." 



" With angling enraptured, at ease sitting here, 

 While we talk of the scenes of our fishing next year, 



