206 Salmon Fishing. 



the pleasant prelude of a coming fight. 



Again was the angler baffled, and moved 

 away till he stood beside one of the prettiest 

 pieces of water in the whole river, the Cottage 

 Pool! "The Cottage Pool;" no longer so in 

 reality now! 



Alas, for the picturesque little dwelling-place, 

 embosomed in trees, and so dear to an artist's 

 eye ! Every stone has been removed, and every 

 tree that shrouded and sheltered it cut down. 

 Where it stood the plough sweeps along un- 

 interruptedly now; and when I last saw the 

 spot, the corn lately grown there was lying 

 on it in sheaves ready to be removed to the 

 rick-yard. 



A very few throws in the Cottage-Pool, 

 and just off the point of the rock, salmo 

 shot up from his favourite lair, seized the fly 

 fast and firm enough, and in his descent, soon 

 found it was food he had little calculated on. 

 Very often when a fish is hooked in a part that 

 gives him no pain, he will hang on hand for some 



