Salmon Fishing. 9 1 



in a way that quite annoyed me. In fact, not 

 satisfied with sending it whizzing in every direc- 

 tion from the side he was standing by, he must 

 needs step into a boat at hand, and obtrude his 

 bait not unfrequently where I was casting my 

 fly. To my inexpressible delight, not far from 

 where he raised quite a commotion in the water, 

 as I thought most unnecessarily, not to say 

 uncourteously, up came a sportive young grilse, 

 which I managed to hook, certainly not foul this 

 time, as the salmon of late, but so firmly, as to 

 let me give him just enough latitude to rush 

 about under the fellow's nose, without the danger 

 of losing him. 



Well ! talk of paying a man off, who had 

 made a desperate attempt to " do" you, and in a 

 way no gentleman would attempt ! I never saw 

 one so ludicrously wrathful, as my fellow-fisher- 

 man, when he caught sight of this bright little 

 beauty capering about, and the quiet smile that 

 was playing all the while on my countenance. 

 After repaying him for some time with, I fear, 



