Salmon Fishing. 5 L 



up with a berth less comfortable than the one I 

 had just occupied myself; and when I asked 

 him where he slept himself, he pointed out to 

 me a berth not a whit inferior to mine, except 

 that it was further from the door. It was rather 

 a trying moment ! I looked hard at the steward, 

 then at the very gentlemanly young barrister at 

 my side ; and I put it to the former, without 

 the smallest approach to circumlocution, if he 

 thought he could sleep as sound and soft as 

 usual, with the glaring fact patent before him, 

 that one tenderly brought up, and all unaccus- 

 tomed to rough it, was lying on the floor beneath 

 him, to his evident discomfort, and perhaps 

 damage of health ? With a delicate hint, that 

 his self-denial would not fail to be rewarded at 

 the. end of the voyage, and the addition of 

 a little more soft solder, the muscles of the 

 Scotch steward's countenance, I saw, began to 

 relax a little ; and the consequence was, that 

 he consented most good naturedly to yield up 

 his own berth to the barrister, and promised 



