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snobbishness, as well as a fine for bis wicked- 

 ness ! I wish I bad tbe power, and I'd make 

 it felony to fish with salmon-roe." 



" Sinking down to the quiet depths below, 

 and pondering upon what I had heard, I fully 

 concurred in the sentence last uttered, on 

 general as well as selfish grounds."* 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The ascent of the river. I find again to my cost that 

 " all is not gold that glitters," and afford a practical 

 illustration of * the biter bitten." My third great 

 peril. 



" Dangees, fears, and perils forgotten, the next 

 morning found my companion and myself again 



* There are those who think that the common trout, on 

 account of the injury he does to the salmon-roe, should be, 

 if possible, annihilated. I differ ; but, with that object in 

 view, no more efficient instrument exists than angling in 

 spring with roe. After all, trout only eat that portion of 

 spawn which, from two females in succession occupying the 

 same spawning-bed or other causes, has been dislodged and 

 floats down the stream, and which under any circumstances 

 must be lost. The insidious attacks of the dragon-fly larvae 

 are a million times more destructive, and, what is worse, 

 impossible to be guarded against. 



