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present, and eye-witnesses of the facts they narrated. 

 The first was published in the "Charleston Mercury," 

 in the form of a letter, dated Beaufort, Sept. 2d, 

 1837; and the second appeared in the April num- 

 ber of the u Southern Literary Journal," year 1838, 

 and page 267. The reader, who will discover with 

 what spirited touches and masterly strokes this last 

 named article abounds, will readily excuse me for 

 adopting so large a portion of it, instead of writing 

 out the story de novo. 



" DEVIL FISHING. 



" BEAUFORT, S. C. 



" After all, there is no sport the world over, like the 

 fisherman's. What of your horse-racing, theatre-gazing, 

 or tripping it down, of a hot summer's night, to the clat- 

 ter of noteless pianos, split clarionets, cold iron triangles, 

 and crazy tambourines ? No ! Give me a tight boat, 

 clean tackle, a few jolly friends, and a warm, pleasant sky, 

 and adieu, ladies and gentlemen, to your dry-land pastimes, 

 as you have.no zest for what are far richer, I assure you, 

 if they are more dearly bought. Pardon me, if I can't 

 dance to your piping the fashion of the thing is gone 

 the soul that once animated it is dead, and is to have, for 

 us, no resurrection. 



" Those who know anything of our coast, will recollect 

 the beautiful frith called the Broad River, which comes up at 

 about latitude 32 Q between Hilton Head and Jenkins' Island, 



