46 SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. 







"Dublin, 41 Upper M. Street. 

 19th July, 1845. 



"Mr DEAR FRIEND, I rejoiced at receiving your epistle, 

 notwithstanding that it was silent as to my last to 

 you. Perhaps it will not surprise you to learn that I 

 have cut the old profession, and become a probationer at 

 the * otium cum dignitate,' whereby and by which I have 

 so totally forgotten everything belonging to law, that I am 

 obliged to resort for explanation of any thing legal to my 

 professional adviser. It follows therefore that it is out of 

 my power to tell you what you are to do with Bluack. 

 When I was in the profession, as well as I can recollect, I 

 would have advised a bill to remove him or make him 

 account; for, by the piper, he seems a most negligent 

 trustee in one respect, inasmuch as he leaves the money 

 he should take and make fructify uselessly lying in the 

 bank, and the cash he has taken into his employment he 

 employs to his own benefit and your loss. I am told he 

 is an honourable man and of strict integrity, but, by the 

 honour of man, he has a queer way of showing it. How- 

 ever, as you do not much want it now, it will, I suppose, 

 accumulate for the benefit of those who shall come after 

 you, called posterity. 



" I essayed to gratify your desire for the e Fiery Brown,' 

 immediately upon learning your wishes, and 'I'll ever 

 remember the day,' as the song has it, for f may I never 

 do an ill turn ' but I was near suffering for it. 



