10 ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 



a man of mere ordinary strength) was, to use the 

 baronet's own expression, as a child's whip in his 

 hands; right fortunate, of a truth, we were in be- 

 holding him, with a determined air, stride down to 

 the water-edge, draw forth his tackle, and fixing a 

 huge salmon fly at the end of his line, hitch it over 

 the surface of a deep, transparent pool, where, by 

 a certain movement of the angler's wrists, it per- 

 formed for the space of half a minute a kind of 

 rotatory dance, and was drawn back again to be 

 relieved by a similar insect of more reduced dimen- 

 sions, whose pas-seul being unable likewise to at- 

 tract the notice either of trout or salmon, a third 

 such monster was brought forth and introduced 

 upon the self-same stage. All these expedients, 

 however, failing, the baronet betook himself to par- 

 catching, and actually managed to draw in two or 

 three unfortunate wretches, whose butchery seemed 

 to afford mighty satisfaction to their captor, and 

 ended for that day the exploits of the renowned Sir 

 Amalek All-gab. Of course, while spectators of 

 this ludicrous scene, we adopted the precaution of 

 remaining concealed. The presence of a dog over- 

 looking his operations, would have no doubt occa- 

 sioned a precipitate retreat on the part of this 

 modest angler. 



We have made mention of Sir Amalek foremost, 

 not as a specimen of the science and accomplish- 

 ments under display by the old and long defunct 

 faternity at C h, but chiefly because he was 



