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your line, a trout has got into a worse one at the other. 

 A little flurried with surprise at both experiences, you 

 come near losing him in the injudicious haste with which 

 you overhaul him." 



The late Hon. Daniel Webster was an enthusiastic rod- 

 fisher, and used to sally out from his country residence at 

 Marshfield Harsh : and wander for days together among 

 the streams of that part of the country. He wrote several 

 interesting papers on the gentle craft, in one of the 

 leading journals of the union In the Journal of Com- 

 merce, New York, there have been, for several years > 

 articles now and then, on angling, of great literary merit. 

 We have been very much interested by the perusal, 

 through the hands of a friend, of a little volume, printed 

 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1852, On Angliny. There 

 are some lines in it On the Salmon Fly> which struck our 

 fancy. They are penned in the true English fishing tone ; 

 and had we not found them where we did, we should have 

 thought them an emanation from the banks of the Tweed, 

 or Tay, or some of the famous salmon streams in the 

 North of Scotland, rather than in the heart of the 

 American Continent. Such productions as these distinctly 

 show how extensively the English practice of Ely-fishing, 

 and the literary tone and sentiment that accompany it, are 

 extending themselves over the world. 



