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are indebted to a good Norse Scholar, resident in Edin- 

 burgh. 



" Have you seen my shepherd lad, 



Do you ken him weel ? 

 Have you seen him by the rill, 



With his rod and creel ? 

 His golden locks dimpled chin, 



Make him dear to me ; 

 Gentle smiles play round his lips, 

 When he throws the flee. 



Up the knowle there's rippling streams 



That display his art ; 

 But the cottage down the glen 



Steals away his heart. 

 Here the hours he whiles away 



The rod is laid aside ; 

 He vows with love and fealty 



He'll make me his bride." 



In the United States, and British America, angling 

 literature has been cultivated with considerable ardour and 

 success, particularly within the last thirty years. We 

 find books on the subject in every section of this vast 

 continent, where the English language is known, and 

 English habits and amusements prevail, of more or less 

 merit and pretensions, both in poetry and prose. In 

 Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the New 

 England States generally, angling has been long a fashion- 

 able amusement among the literary and active minds of 

 the country ; and the whole of the continent, considerably 



