142 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. 



o' Shanter " and " Cotter's Saturday Night," in a 

 most admirable manner, to the great delight of the 

 venerable Scotch matron of the household and 

 " ithers o' that ilk " who were present. The Judge 

 also delighted eveiy one by his good-humored ren- 

 dering of that classically pathetic ballad, "Sam 

 Jones, the fisherman," while DUN brought tears to 

 the eyes of his susceptible audience by artistically 

 chanting that profoundly plaintive ditty : 



44 On Springfield mountains there did dwell, 

 A comely youth I knew full well," 



which " comely youth," it may be remembered, 

 having been cruelly jilted, wandered off broken- 

 hearted to die ignominiously from the bite of " a 

 pesky sarpent." 



In reportorial parlance, " nothing occurred to 

 mar the festivities of the occasion," and all retired 

 at an early hour the happier for having participated 

 in the innocent hilarity of the evening. 



