go Salmon Fishing. 



the words, but I fancy he called me what seemed 

 little short of a simpleton over and over again ; 

 till at last I shouted out to him, to mind his own 

 business, and not bother me. Ten minutes 

 passed away, and getting rather impatient I 

 tugged hard enough at the fish, to put a little 

 life into him. But no ! It was not till a few 

 more minutes had elapsed, that he most 

 deliberately moved about ten yards up the 

 stream, and nothing I could do afterwards had 

 any effect upon him, until to my horror the hook 

 came home. 



The sensations we anglers have to submit to, 

 under such circumstances as these, are sadly 

 trying to the temper. Doubtless the fish was 

 hooked foul in no very sensitive part ; and being 

 of some size, and not perhaps of an excitable 

 temperament, thought it not worth his while 

 to exert himself much. The man who had 

 screeched at me from the other side I found 

 I had not done with yet. He was fishing with a 

 parr's tail for his bait, and kept whirling it about 



