26 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES, &C. 



I found him seated on a bench, before the 

 door, smoking his pipe in the evening sunshine ; 

 he had been angling all day, and gave me the 

 history of his sport, being particularly animated 

 about taking a large trout. His family consisted 

 of a large black cat, with one eye, and a parrot, 

 which he had caught in one of his voyages, and 

 educated himself. 



Washington Irving' s Sketch Book. 



