2o8 Salmon Fishing. 



Can anyone fancy a more critical situation 

 for an ardent sportsman, like my friend, to be 

 in ? If ever a brave man felt inclined to resist 

 the attacks of so gigantic a bully, I believe this 

 plucky angler was he ! But brute force, backed 

 by ferocious determination ! Where would the 

 fisherman have been, had he made up his mind 

 to stand his ground against such terrible odds ? 

 Facing each other for a time stood the un- 

 welcome stranger, and the fisherman ! Then 

 lashing his sides with his tail, and uttering the 

 deep, low guttural growl that gives warning of a 

 charge ; no sooner did my friend see and hear 

 this, than he straightened his rod, and then pulled 

 violently at the line, till the gut snapped asunder, 

 and in the twinkling of an eye was on the other 

 side of some rails below, out of harm's way. 



So greatly have I been indebted to my love 

 of fishing for health and amusement, that I 

 rarely lose an opportunity of encouraging the 

 like love, not in behalf of the youthful only, 

 but of others. 



