Salmon Fishing. 



hands of a Right Reverend Prelate in the same 

 part of the country, who, after the wear and 

 tear of his body and brains, during months 

 of hard work in his diocese, is wont to betake 

 himself occasionally to the banks of rivers, to 

 handle a rod, and revel in the scenery so 

 attractive to him there. During a whole fort- 

 night's fishing in the Usk, with too often little 

 sport, I understood him once to remark, that 

 he beguiled much of the leisure time by re- 

 clining on the banks, and luxuriating in the 

 pages of his favourite Horace. 



A widely-different affair would the handling 

 of a hooked fish be in his hands, to those of 

 the Dean above-mentioned. To the latter 

 would the fight, without doubt, at the time, 

 be as though he were engaged heart and 

 soul in a matter that enlisted all his sympathies 

 and physical energies. Fiery as an impetuous 

 soldier in the face of the foe ; fearless of all 

 consequences, if he can but win the victory ; 

 such can I well fancy the Dean to be, when 



