66 Salmon Fishing. 



take not the slightest notice of the killers they 

 are so good as to offer them. Instead of this, 

 had they cast a bit longer line from the edge of 

 the gravel, and only entered the water, when a 

 few yards more were needed, than they could 

 throw without wading, the superior distance from 

 where the fish lay, might have obscured them 

 from the notice of the latter, and a good rise been 

 the result. 



A new river to a fisherman is as welcome a 

 boon, as a new novel to a lover of works of 

 fiction. The reader then may imagine my 

 sensations, when descending from the hill to wet 

 my line for the first time in the river Ness. The 

 earliest glimpse I caught of it gave me a most 

 delightful idea of its beauty, which a closer 

 inspection day after day subsequently failed to 

 obliterate. 



When first he saw the river ramble by, 



What fairer sight could charm the angler's eye ? 



No wonder fancy in her flowery dream, 



Should picture many a fight in pool and stream ; 



Till light as air, his footsteps skimmed the field, 



While his hand clutched the rod he longed to wield. 



