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story grounded on this circumstance respecting 

 Yatel, one of the most illustrious officers of the 

 Prince of Conde. This Major-domo understood that 

 a dinner without fish was a heartless and cheerless one. 

 One day, when his noble master entertained Louis 

 XIV. at a royal banquet, at Chantilly, which the 

 genius of Yatel rendered more brilliant, the fish 

 from the coast failed ; he sent everywhere, but none 

 could be procured. He was at his wit's end ; he 

 met his august master, whose kind words, full of 

 benevolence, only served to increase his distress and 

 bewilderment. He left him ; ran to his chamber, 

 took his sword, and three times pierced his heart ! 

 Shortly after fish arrived from all quarters ; Yatel 

 was called no Yatel ! He was sought for, and at 

 last discovered Yatel was no more ! 



The County of Sutherland presents a splendid 

 range for the angler. It embraces an extent of 

 between sixty and seventy miles in length, by near- 

 ly fifty in extreme breadth. To perambulate this 

 district fairly and fully with the rod in hand, is 

 the work of an entire fishing season. Where time 

 and opportunity allow this to be done, it will prove 

 one of the richest piscatory treats that a sports- 

 man can meet with in any part of the world. To 

 accomplish this task pleasantly, and really benefi- 

 cially, there is nothing like walking ; and next to 

 this, a Highland Pony ; an assistant which gets 

 you over the ground more rapidly, and diminishes 

 the quantum of bodily fatigue. Eut it must be 

 borne in mind that, with a horse of any kind, the 



