Angling in a Crater 23 



in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves 

 in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving com- 

 fort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. 

 As thus I sat, these and other sights had so fully 

 possessed my soul with content, that I thought, as 

 the poet has exprest it, 



I was for the time lifted above earth ; 

 And possest joys not promis'd in my birth. 



As I left this place, and entered the next field, 

 a second pleasure entertained me ; 't was a hand- 

 some milkmaid that had not yet attained so much 

 age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears 

 of many things that will never be, as too many men 

 too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung 

 like a nightingale. 



Delightfully expressed and telling the com- 

 plete story of the " Complete Angler," who went 

 fishing that he might commune with all the 

 beautiful things of life and nature, including 

 milkmaids. The lines of Walton were cast in 

 gentle places, and his streams have a thousand 

 prototypes in New England, New York, and 

 Canada, or any Eastern State, and many on the 

 western slope. But when the angler wanders 

 into the great Northwest, particularly in Ore- 

 gon, he finds diversions and incidents far more 

 striking, and the antipodes of sylvan streams 



