CHAPTER VI. 



!O a fisherman accustomed as I have 

 been for years to frequent the 

 banks of rivers open to the angling 

 fraternity at large, it is only natural to suppose, 

 that many laughable scenes, and comic-actors 

 in them, could hardly fail of cropping up. I 

 am afraid I must plead guilty, too, to the 

 charge of a rather mischievous propensity, few 

 of us are quite free from, of putting myself 

 in the way of witnessing the discomfiture of 

 others, we are not disposed to take a fancy to, 

 from their brusque manners, or bumptious airs. 

 On my return home, not very long ago, with 

 that pleasant sensation of satisfaction, that steals 

 over us when success has crowned our efforts, 

 whether in fishing, or anything else, I was 



