mon-fishing ; and, as I have the words down in 

 my pocket-"book, I will read them. "We have 

 ourselves seen the first sculptor in Europe when 

 he had taken two salmon on the same morn- 

 ing, and can well "believe that his sense of self-im- 

 portance exceeded twenty-fold that which he felt on 

 the production of any of the masterpieces which 

 have immortalized him." 



TWEDDELL. I think I have heard you say that 

 you did not acquire your own knowledge of fly-fish- 

 ing in London, Mr. Simpson. 



SIMPSON. True. When a "boy, I was at school 

 near Cotherstone, in Yorkshire, and it was there, in 

 the Tees, and in a small stream which ran close to 

 our master's house, that I first commenced angler. 

 I did not commence fly-fisher, at once, "but regularly 

 advanced through a course of minnow-fishing, with 

 a line of packthread and a farthing hook; and I well 

 recollect my first trial for perch, with a new rod and 

 a fine hair line, when I caught fifteen, and thought 

 myself a first-rate angler;" and 'certainly felt myself 

 one of the happiest of human "beings. After this 

 successful commencement, with something like a 

 regular angler's tackle, all my leisure hours and 

 holidays, when the weather allowed, were spent in 

 fishing ; and as I managed to take a good many eels, 

 perch, dace, and "brandling trouts, I "became a favorite 

 with the master's wife, who was a great economist, 

 and regularly served up my evening's take for dinner 

 the next day, and I frequently obtained, through her 



