fix the hook of the gaff in him, and out with him, 

 as a fisherman from Robin Hood's Bay hauls a cod 

 from the hold of a five-man boat. Kill him directly 

 with a few smart blows on the head, with a life- 

 preserver, if you have one in your pocket, if 

 not, with any stick or cobble-stone heavy enough; 

 slip through his gills a cord, one end of which you 

 will fasten to a bank-runner, or the stump of a tree, 

 and throw him into the water till you want him. 

 He will eat as firm again as he would do had you 

 left him to die on the shore by inches, a dread- 

 fully protracted death to a salmon three feet long, 

 or a human being upwards of six feet high. 



SIMPSON. I never caught a salmon in my life, 

 though I have killed some trout which for size 

 might be considered such. I should, however, like 

 much to catch a few "brace" of salmon before I hang 

 up my rod as a votive offering to the water nymph a. 

 But it seems you cannot depend on catching salmon 

 with the rod, however skilful, though you should 

 fish for a month, unless you go to the west of Ireland, 

 or the extreme north of Scotland. Sir Humphrey 

 Davy has said "fuit" of salmon-fishing in the 

 southern counties of Scotland; and the "Angler in 

 Ireland" declares that no good salmon-fishing is to be 

 expected in Wales. 



FISHER Then off with you next spring, either 

 to Cunnemara or Inverness-shire. "Hope deferred 

 makeththe heart sick;" so if you have conceived an 

 affection for salmon-fishing let not your long-deferred 



