114 Salmon Fishing. 



and have a word or two with me. " I fear," I 

 said at once to him, " you found the river sadly 

 too high for fishing ; in fact, so hopeless did I 

 think it, that I have only just turned out for a 

 mouthful of fresh air." " Oh," he replied, " I 

 came here this morning, and having heard a 

 good deal about the fishing, and finding it rather 

 slow at the hotel, I thought I would just try my 

 hand, and see if I could not hook a salmon or 

 two." We then parted, but not before one of 

 the attendants I knew lingered a little behind, 

 with a very merry twinkle in his eyes. " Well, 

 Pat," I said, " what sport has his Lordship had 

 (for I concluded it was he)? " Sport, y'r honour," 

 said he ; " Bless the gintleman's innocence ! why, 

 every time he threw his fly into the strame, I 

 verily belave, he expected a fish would come!" 

 And away went Pat, laughing heartily, I much 

 feared, at the stranger's expense. 



This young English nobleman was by no 

 means an unfavourable specimen of his class. 

 High up the social ladder in birth and position, 



