1 80 ANGLING. 



Wildly the eager band 



Closes its fatal numbers : 

 Across its glistering sand 



The wizard water slumbers. 

 It is the Leisterer's cry ! 



The Salmon, ho ! oho ! 

 And lightening like, the white prongs strike 



The jaded fish below. 



Rises the cheering shout, 



Over the rapid slaughter ; 

 The gleaming torches flout 



The old oak shadow'd water. 

 It is the Leisterer's cry ! 



The Salmon, ho ! oho ! 

 Calmly it lies, and gasps, and dies 



Upon the moss bank low. 



THE BULL-TROUT.* 



This is another great migratory species, well 

 known in many of our larger rivers, but not so easy 

 to identify with any of the continental kinds. It 

 is thicker in proportion to its length than the sal- 

 mon, the fins are more muscular, especially the tail, 

 and the latter organ is square, or even slightly con- 

 vex, or rounded terminally, instead of being forked 

 or semi-lunar, as in so many fishes. The terminal 

 portions of the pectoral fins are also rather of a 

 dusky hue, than of that more decided blackish tint, 

 which characterises those parts in true salmon. 

 The head is proportionally larger than that of the 

 salmon ; the teeth are longer and stronger, and the 

 inferior posterior angle of the opercular cover more 

 elongated backwards. The general colour is a green- 

 ish grey above, the lower parts silvery white ; the 



* Salmo erioac, Linn. Yar. 



