TUBBER TURNER. 36l 



" Who goes with me to Ballyshaimon ? 

 I mean to sleep at Cockburn's to-night, and 

 see what news I can pick up." 



" I cannot, for one," said the Captain. 

 " I will fish the river down, and join you 

 there to-morrow ; but for to-night, the 

 Scholar and I have struck out a plan for 

 getting a boat down the Belleek Rapids, 

 and launching it in the White Cat Cove. I 

 was smoking my pipe there last evening, and 

 the trout were rising almost as fast as they 

 did the other night at Lough Derg. I was 

 thinking all night how I should circumvent 

 them, for the rascals won't rise where you 

 can get at them, and in most places the 

 banks there are so precipitous that you 

 cannot get near the water at all." 



" I should not wonder if you found your 

 boat a successful experiment," said the 

 Parson. " I know you can get a boat down 

 there, for I once did it myself ; not to catch 

 fish exactly, for the place is too smooth and 

 too sheltered to do much that way in the 

 day-time, but to examine the two caves, in 

 each of which a fairy sits nightly watching 

 the trout in the shapes of a white and a 

 black cat." 



