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pursue their loves or their prey. All nature would 

 appear disposed to rest, as if to gather fresh strength 

 for the coming day. To witness such scenes, and to 

 enjoy the pleasures they impart, few plans or pursuits 

 are more appropriate than night-angling on a large 

 lake. The picture attempted of both, and the prac- 

 tical hints introduced, derive little or no aid from art 

 or the imagination. The impressions sought to be 

 conveyed are simply those of reality, often experi- 

 enced in early life. In taking leave of the scene in 

 which they were realised, and when my last cast 

 has been made in its waters, the lines of Moore rise 

 unsought to my pen : 



" Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, 



May calm and sunshine long be thine ; 

 How fair thou art let others tell, 



To feel how fair shall long be mine !" 



E. K M. 



