48 ARDENMOHR. 



" Do then forgive me, like a good fellow, and trans- 

 late my meaning into parliamentary language." 



Ward laughed, and said that, instead of a curt 

 " do no good, and may harm," would it not be more 

 polite to have remarked, "Mr. Ward, the lure 

 which you propose to use cannot, under the circum- 

 stances of its unnatural brightness and your inex- 

 perience, be productive of beneficial influences; but, 

 on the contrary, may be the cause of disaster and 

 deleterious operation throughout the length and 

 breadth of our sporting river " ? 



" Ha, ha ! What a park of wordy artillery to 

 demolish a fly ! " 



"Still, ridiculous as it seems, the sort of style is 

 often used in private, and it is absolutely necessary 

 in public speeches, in which people are used to 

 having their parish pumps compared with the pyra- 

 mids ; and rather like it," he sneeringly added. 



"Yet the men are not individually donkeys, 

 although they may applaud." 



"A pen de chose pres ; but how do you fix these 

 knots so nicely on the casts ? " 



"Oh! that's the sailor's knot; shall I teach you?" 



" Yes, do." 



And Ward mastered the sailor's knot, which after- 



