he fish "by rapid stream and broad river, "by highland 

 loch and lowland mere; until, "sans teeth, sans eyes, 

 sans taste, sans everything," he relapse into childhood 

 again. 



The hoy who has thus auspiciously entered on his 

 noviciate proceeds gradually until he takes a master's 

 degree, an honor to which no one is admitted "before he 

 has performed the qualifying act of hooking and land- 

 ing, without assistance, a salmon not less than fourteen 

 pounds weight; after which he ought, on producing his 

 testimonium, to have the entre of every angling club 

 throughout G-reat Britain and Ireland. Should there he 

 no salmon-fishing in the waters where he exercises his 

 skill, then a jack of the same weight, also taken without 

 assistance, or a stone and a half of trout, half a hundred- 

 weight of "barbel, or a peck of dace, roach, or perch 

 caught in a day's fair fishing, not in dock or pond, may 

 be allowed as a qualification, speciali gratia, for the same 

 degree. It is here to be noted that bream may be allowed 

 instead of barbel, or be weighed with them, if taken in 

 the same day's fishing ; and that carp and tench may 

 be weighed with trout. E els are not reckoned ; and gud- 

 geon-fishers are always to be considered in a state of 

 pupilage, and their take not to be admitted in proof of 

 angling skill, either by weight, tale, or measure. Gud- 

 geon-fishing, as Michael Angelo said of oil-painting, is 

 only fit for women and boys. To take a salmon in fresco 

 that is, in a fresh or spate, as a north-country friend 

 translates it is the perfection of the angler's art. 



Though no person, however partial to angling, and 



