222 SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



short visit to Spa, not very far distant, and there met with 

 that good-natured, but eccentric individual, the late Edward 



A , Esq., whose death yet remains an unexplained 



mystery, and received a general invitation to visit him at 

 his residence in the Ardennes, the Chateau d'Eneilles, 

 near Marche, on the Ourthe, and only about twelve miles 

 across country from iny own residence, 



I was not long in availing myself of this invitation, par- 

 ticularly as I was promised some tolerable quail and partridge 

 shooting, and was told that the Ourthe contained good fish 

 of many descriptions. I well knew that I should have to put 

 up with many oddities and peculiarities on the part of my 

 host, but, on the whole, promised myself much amusement. 

 I arrived at the old Chateau d'Eneilles, which is situated on 

 an eminence above the river, by a short cut across the country 

 on my faithful pony, about the latter end of autumn, and 



was told that Mr. A was fishing in the weir below. At 



the same time that I arrived, I observed a distinguished- 

 looking gentleman, mounted on an English thoroughbred 

 horse, with a servant in attendance, whom I recognised as 

 a nobleman of high rank I had seen at Spa, and who was 

 come to pay a morning visit to iny host. We both dis- 

 mounted, and leaving our steeds in charge of a servant, walked 

 down the hill to the river, and there beheld the object of 

 our search, or rather a portion of him, his head and shoulders 

 enveloped in a high fur Cossack cap and black sheepskin 

 jacket, and the rest of his person, which was devoid of all 

 " the artificial aid of dress," submerged in the water. He ad- 

 vanced, however, in nature's simple garb, to meet us ; told us 

 he had been spinning for either trout or pike in the weir, and 



very much astonished the exquisite Duke d'O with the 



nature of his sport, and mode of practising it, as well as with 

 his costume and philosophy. 



Many are the anecdotes I could relate of this eccentric, 



