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of Parr, which, however, so far from being a 

 watch- word in our own family, is rather an assured 

 signal for somnolescence, and therefore we in no way 

 take amiss, that a respected stranger should gently 

 repose himself over a subject, which we have seen 

 so often veil in dim suffusion far brighter eyes than 

 his. Not that we mean to say there is anything 

 defective in his vision, quite the reverse, for we 

 rather like odd looking eyes, but are simply de- 

 sirous to mention that we forgive his yielding thus 

 to nature's " soft restorer." He may now uplift 

 his lids, and look about him for a moment. 



When an angler finds himself standing a few 

 hundred yards, or it may be even several miles, from 

 the mouth of a beautiful and sparkling river, 

 haply not on golden sands, nor yet on grassy bank, 

 but half way up between the knees and haunches 

 in the water when every other cast of his far 

 stretching gossamer causes a sudden " bright up- 

 rising" into the sunny air of some quick springing 

 fish, with deep cerulean back, and breast like that 

 of Leper " white as snow," what matters it to him 

 by what specific name it once was known to Ray, 

 Artedi, Pennant, or Linnaeus I It is a sea trout, 

 and let him thank his stars, and think no more of 

 albus or of trutta. It may weigh only three quar- 

 ters of a pound, or it may weigh a pound and a half, 

 or two pounds, seldom any less, and still more 

 seldom more, but if he kills a couple of dozen, let 

 him therewith be content, for better anglers, many 

 a time and oft, have fished farther and fared worse. 

 Large and rather gaudy flies, dressed much upon 



