PLEASURES OF ANGLING. Ill 



of blankets to keep you warm, makes as comfort- 

 able a couch as you can buy of the upholsterer. A 

 leaky tent or shanty is an unnecessary nuisance ; 

 while, by using a little forethought, your cuisine 

 may be as palatable and healthful as any epicure 

 could desire. It all depends upon one's own skill 

 and knowledge, and these, like all wisdom, are 

 only acquired by experience. 



Nor to attain these comforts is it necessary to 

 render yourself ridiculous by transporting a cart- 

 load of luggage. A large sack, which any one can 

 shoulder, will hold your A or wall-tent, your bed- 

 ding and all your rough garments. A hand valise 

 is sufficient for your "store clothes." Two or 

 three moderate sized packages will cover your 

 necessary provender for an ordinary trip, and your 

 tackling is easily portable. A Saratoga trunk on 

 trout-stream or salmon river is as conclusive as a 

 sonorous bray that a donkey is in the neighbor- 

 hood. Yet these are sometimes seen, ordinarily 

 accompanied by a biped decked off in long boots, 

 velvet pants and jacket, a jaunty hat bedizzened 

 with gaudy flies, and a body belt ornamented with 

 bowie knife and pistol, as if he expected at every 

 turn to encounter herds of wild cats or panthers, 

 or a whole tribe of blood-thirsty Indians anxious 

 for his precious scalp. All anglers in their wan- 

 derings have encountered such comical specimens 

 of cockney sportsmen. They are generally harm- 



