CHAPTEE II. 



A DAY AT LOUGH MELVIN. 



Effects of a Westerly Gale — Expedition to Lough 

 Melvin — Irish Cars — The Johnstones — Otter Fishing 

 — Cross-line Fishing — Precautions against Quarrel- 

 ing — Not very Efficacious — The Bridge — The Salmo 

 ferox a Peace-maker. 



Between the ruins of Rose Isle and the 

 main branch of the river there is a sort of 

 esplanade — a natural pavement, as it were — 

 divided here and there by fissures, into which 

 some half-dozen hardy ash-trees had rooted 

 themselves. Dipping as it does at a very 

 small angle into the river, and worn almost 

 as smooth as a real pavement by its winter 

 floods, it forms not only a very pleasant 

 quarter-deck walk, but also a pretty accurate 

 gauge of the water in the river. 



It was early on the following morning that 

 the Parson, leaning on his gaff, was whistling 



