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like a sea-horse. But the stream was strong, and I had 

 the pleasure of accompanying him, side by side, for 

 several hundred yards down the river. At length the 

 crowd of monsters whom his cries had brought, running 

 along the bank, dragged him out in the midst of peals of 

 laughter. He was more miry than ever, his face was all 

 duckweed and dismay ; and without basket, rod, or hat, 

 terrified, dripping, and half drowned, he looked the most 

 helpless and ridiculous of all possible monsters. I left 

 him, with a dash of my tail that ploughed up the water, 

 in scorn, and sailed away for my old loved haunts in the 

 Atlantic. From time to time I turned to gaze on the 

 scene of the monster's discomfiture, where I saw the crowd 

 carrying him away, and uttering roars of laughter, till all 

 was lost in distance and silence ; and I inhaled alone the 

 living breeze, and saw before me the sapphire stream bend- 

 ing over the majesty of ocean." Blackwood's Magazine* 



We shall give a passage or two from the celebrated 

 work of Monsieur Colnet, called L'Hermite de Belleville 

 (Paris, 1815): 



" L'AUT DE LA PECHE A LA LIGNE. 

 c La ligne est un instrument ou il y a une bete & chaque bout.' 



ANCELOT, EHomme du Monde. 



" La peche est-elle done un amusement aussi innocent 

 qu'on voudrait nous le persuader ? Ce ne sont pas, au 

 moins, les poissons qui le disent, et il n'y a pas une carpe 

 assez sotte pour le croire, pas un goujon assez stupide 



