CHAPTER X 



FERGY THE GUIDE, AND HIS MORAL AND 

 INSTRUCTIVE LIES ABOUT BEASTS, BIRDS, 

 AND FISHES.i 



IT is a fact too well known to be disputed that 

 all anglers are so honest and so truthful in all 

 the stones they have to tell about their fishing 

 exploits that I am sure they will understand and 

 appreciate the yarns, bits of which I propose to 

 quote for their edification, from this remarkable 

 book. Ferguson the guide, called Fergy for 

 short, was squat, muscular and brown, with small 

 dark eyes peering from under a drooping brim. 

 His language was simple and direct, unadorned 

 with the graces of rhetoric, and unmarred by 

 the crimpings of grammar. He knew all there 

 is to be known about the beasts, birds, and 

 fishes, and the Jrees and herbs of the great 



1 By H.;.S. Canfield. David Nutt. London, 1905. 



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