Salmon Fishing. 47 



Nothing tells you of the complete change 

 you have undergone from the familiar usages 

 of the domestic dressing-room ; the bath just 

 ready to receive you ; and the jug of hot water 

 steaming at hand ; than the first attempt to 

 dress and shave in the little hole in the cabin 

 of a ship, you have allotted to your share for 

 that purpose. If the steward happen to see 

 you with more than the smallest modicum of 

 water, he takes good care to call your attention 

 to the fact, that there is only a limited supply 

 of the precious fluid on board, and that .when 

 that is exhausted, you can get no more. The 

 most difficult task to accomplish, when the 

 vessel is at all unsteady, is to escape cutting 

 off the end of you* nose, or inflicting a deepish 

 gash on your chin, instead of denuding yourself 

 of your beard with the help of the razor. 

 Happy they who never shave at all, and are 

 thus exonerated from one of the greatest 

 nuisances of life. 



The repulsion of feeling from the weight of 



