Salmon Fishing. 61 



I come a fortnight before, instead of the chance 

 of a few fish falling to my share now, I might 

 have killed eight or ten a day. "Never was 

 known," he said, "such a throng of grilse, and 

 as the water was in their favour, most of them 

 must have travelled up by this time." 



How is it that we unfortunates never do come 

 at the right time ? 



Not a little amusing are the graphic pictures 

 presented to our longing eyes, week after week, 

 in the columns of the papers, of the rivers and 

 lakes of Erin, " teeming with salmon," to the sad 

 disappointment of our over-sanguine brethren, 

 who had been tempted too greedily to swallow 

 the bait ! 



From a well-nigh weekly contributor to one 

 of these papers, if the first paragraph of his 

 communication be a little likely to damp the 

 ardour of those who are ever on the look-out 

 for " good fishing quarters," he is sure to have 

 in store that little comfortable monosyllable 

 "still," to settle the matter to their entire 



