Salmon F is /ting. 75 



As a plentiful supply of rain is indispensable 

 to salmon, to swell the rivers they frequent in 

 their upward course, as well as to help them 

 down, when certain domestic duties have been 

 discharged, who knows but that the hand of 

 Providence has implanted in them a sure pre- 

 sentiment of the change at hand, and the strange 

 antics above-mentioned may be a method pecu- 

 liar to them of shewing their humble joys and 



sorrows ? Not a little mortified was C m n 



at the close of the day, when all we had to 

 exhibit as the fruit of our labours, was the 

 solitary sea-trout he had shewn such a contempt 

 for ! He felt, however, a little more composed, 

 when he was informed by the landlord of the 

 hotel I was staying at, that a first-rate fisherman 

 had tried the same water the day before, with- 

 out even a wretched sea-trout to reward his 

 pains. 



When my companion saw how little notice the 

 fish were inclined to take of my flies, he pulled 

 out of his pocket some charming specimens 



