1 1 6 Salmon Fishing. 



party rushing into my dormitory by mistake, as 

 he told me afterwards. 



When I sallied forth about ten in the morn- 

 ing, I had quite forgotten all about it ; and I 

 commenced fishing, satisfied that let the sport 

 be what it may, there was quite sufficient 

 besides to repay me for the many hours' ramble 

 I knew to be at hand. 



How often have I been saddled by others 

 with an unwonted supply of patience, and 

 well-nigh commiserated for having to walk hour 

 after hour down the banks of a river, often with 

 little, and not seldom with no sport at all, to 

 reward me for my pains. 



Is the angler's mind then of all others so 

 abject a slave to the more prominent object, 

 say, of sport, the hand is so busied with at 

 times, as to have no room besides for anything 

 beyond, no matter how lovely to the eye, or 

 pleasant to the thoughts ? As keen a salmon- 

 fisher as ever handled a rod, were it not for its 

 collateral accompaniments, very soon should I, 



