1 1 8 Salmon Fishing. 



pected commotion in the stream before me ; 

 a sharp and sudden strain of the line, and then, 

 Oh ! then, such a struggle for the mastery, as 

 called forth all my efforts to prevent the calamity 

 (no trifle I can assure you), of coming off second 

 best, instead of conqueror, in the fight. 



If entranced by no such scenery as this, 

 though the banks of the Clady are not destitute 

 of charms of a different kind, I was rambling 

 on, lost in thought, when all at once at a 

 distance in the road above, I heard my name 

 heralded aloud, and whom should I espy, but 

 his Lordship, in a most excited state, holding 

 up, what appeared to me a white trout of very 

 moderate dimensions. "I've got a salmon at 

 last !" I could just distinguish to be the drift of 

 his Lordship's exultant cry ; " I've got a salmon 

 at last !" And loudly and heartily did I respond 

 in a congratulatory tone on his wondrous 

 .success. Away went his Lordship ; and away 

 walked I, marvelling at the former's excitement 

 from so humble a source ! 



