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study, or with a never-idle pen in a dingy 

 office, or grinding away at some avocation or 

 other, which the performers come to regard 

 with no very dissimilar sensations to those the 

 poor horse in the mill can hardly be free from ; 

 no wonder men such as these give heed to 

 invitations that woo them away to the green 

 shores of Erin, or the mountains and streams 

 of bonnie Scotland; or the charming scenery 

 of North Wales, with too silvery a voice ! 



So superior, in my humble opinion, is salmon- 

 fishing to any other sport, even to a fast run, 

 say, with the Duke of Beaufort's foxhounds, 

 which I once thought nothing could exceed, 

 that I am not surprised, the public should be 

 at a loss to look for it, except at too high a 

 cost, as in the case of the Thurso, and a few 

 other favoured rivers. The veriest shadow of 

 a chance, then, of finding the highly-coveted 

 pleasure without difficulty, or too great a strain 

 upon the purse, is a pill few can help swallowing 

 apart from much prudent forethought. 



