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to be pitied rather than envied, unless one (a 

 "rara avis" indeed), to whom it is a luxury 

 not to hoard, or to spend his wealth upon 

 himself, but in furtherance of his fellows' good. 



Despite such dismal forebodings, however, 

 there is a drop of comfort still left to the 

 salmon-fisher in the fact, that at length the 

 eyes of the landowners have been opened to 

 the monstrous evil of having their rivers and 

 streams converted into cesspools, or poisoned 

 by mine-water. 



A mere angler, who rambles about rod-in- 

 hand for his own amusement ; how pre- 

 posterous, that the hot scramble for money 

 should be stayed a moment, out of any feel- 

 ings of compunction towards him ! But for 

 horses and cattle to drink in their decline, and 

 speedy death, with every draught of river 

 water they imbibe ; aye, and the herbage on 

 the banks, so far from being doubly green 

 and luxuriant, to be shrivelled up or destroyed 

 altogether! This, this is a totally-different 



