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They remonstrate, and extricate with proper cour- 

 tesy. Not particularly admiring his position, which 

 he deems crowded, he backs out, quits the ranks, 

 and in evil hour trespasses on the water below. 

 Then was thy wrath awakened, O jolly miller ! 

 White in apparel, but rubicund in complexion, you 

 sally forth, portly and irascent : lofty is your 

 language. 



" Who gave you toleration to fish in my mill 

 tail ? " In return, Mr. Miller, you are called an 

 uncivil brute, and you well deserve it ; for, in 

 civility, you should first of all have remonstrated, 

 and, in prudence, should afterwards have en- 

 deavoured to exact a handsome fine for the tres- 

 pass. But you did neither of these ; on the con- 

 trary, I am sorry to say, you were personal and un- 

 pleasant, and forcibly deprived our amiable friend 

 Mr. John Poplin of his rod ; so that he returned to 

 London with an accumulation of bile, and scolded 

 his wife, maid, and footboy. Hard was the fate of 

 the caster of the green granam ! 



Mount we now one step higher, nay, a goodly 

 stride or two ; and let us celebrate the real scientific 

 fly-fisher, to whom fortune has been more propitious. 

 Possessed of ample means, he roves from river to 

 lake, rich in rods of various dimensions, and the 

 joyful possessor of all the flies that have been named 

 or engraved in all the ninety-nine books that have 

 been published on the art of angling, not forgetting 

 that distinguished fly called the professor. We have 

 a boundless respect for this young gentleman. We 

 like his custom of roving about. He does not scruple 



