.244 Salmon Fishing. 



The distance the fish took me down, I heard 

 from those well acquainted with the locality, 

 could not have been less than seven hundred 

 yards. When the steep and rugged bank, over- 

 hung with trees ; the huge rocks that stood in 

 the way ; the roaring torrent that swept so 

 ruthlessly by ; are taken into consideration ; 

 no fight that I, and very few, I imagine, that 

 others ever experienced, could have exceeded 

 this in the variety of incidents that tend to 

 make salmon-fishing so replete with excitement. 



When seated on the green sward, I hardly 

 know whether Peter thought more of me, than 

 I did of him. " He's a gude fusher," he told 

 the people at the hotel, after he had described 

 the fight, and how near I was being drowned. 

 " If ever I have such a struggle again, may 

 you be at hand, Peter, and I shall be more than 

 satisfied ;" were almost my parting words to 

 him. 



I am indebted to the pencil of a Physician, 

 of well-nigh world-wide celebrity, then staying 



