are disconsolately singing, from morning to night, 

 "O, for him "back again," with a touch of the senti- 

 mental, either in verse or prose, accordingly as he 

 may "be "i' the vein." 



With a twenty-fee b salmon rod a twig which 

 requires two hands, and cannot be nourished about 

 as a gentleman switches his cane an expert angler 

 will find no difficulty in casting twenty-five yards 

 of line, if the banks of the river be clear of wood; 

 and if the wind be direct in his favor, he will be 

 able to cast five yards more. It is generally the 

 safest way to strike as soon as the salmon descends 

 after having seized the fly; for when he has once 

 taken it in his mouth and made a downward plunge 

 there is nothing to be gained by giving him time, 

 which only affords him an opportunity of blowing 

 it out again should he not have hooked himself. 

 In the "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana," article "An- 

 gling," which must have been written by a down- 

 right ignoramus, wholly unacquainted with the art 

 of which he pretends to treat, and, from the shame- 

 ful literary errors which have been permitted to 

 pass uncorrected, revised by a careless editor is 

 the following direction : " When you imagine that 

 the salmon has been struck, be cautious in giving 

 him time sufficient to enable him to pouch hia 

 bait, that is, swallow it fairly or securely; after this, 

 fix the hook in him by a gentle twitch." A passage 

 betraying greater ignorance of the art of angling was 



