220 Salmon Fishing. 



and there will you have Mr. "Rough" in full 

 feather. 



Could we but get rid of the genus, no matter 

 what the school for the ameliorating process ; 

 and our ears would cease to be shocked as now, 

 by the nauseous mixture of blasphemy and 

 obscenity, without which they rarely open their 

 mouths. 



The lower classes in general are deserving of 

 the greatest respect and admiration. For the 

 smallest of favours they receive at your hands, 

 if conferred unostentatiously upon them, their 

 gratitude usually exceeds the value of the gift. 

 Besides, their kindness to each other, and 

 sympathy, in seasons of distress and sorrow, 

 are beyond all praise. 



When these sons of labour congregate on 

 the banks of canals, or such rivers as the 

 Clyde, a mile or two above Glasgow, and are 

 satisfied to watch their floats for hours; what 

 can be a more powerful antidote to vice, whether 

 offered to them in a beershop, or a brothel ? 



