Fly-Fifhing. \ i 



ftand in need of entire relaxation occafionally, I 

 feel fure no active member of my cloth ought to 

 be excluded from the number. 



As weak as other men, phyfically as well as 

 mentally, entire change of fcene and employment 

 is no lefs indifpenfable to us. And though perhaps 

 pleafure and profit may be combined to a far 

 greater extent in a month's vifit to other mores in 

 the fludy of men and manners ; travelling, we 

 muft not forget, in its cheapeft form, is an expen- 

 five recreation too much fo, I fear, for the nar- 

 row pockets of the Clergy in general. Accuftomed 

 for fome years paft, to leave home (no unhappy 

 one by the way) for the laft week in May, and the 

 whole of June, not the leaft tranquil hours of my 

 life have been fpent amid Nature's moft fecluded 

 retreats, on the banks of fome mountain-torrent, 

 or babbling brook, or majeftic river. 



Oh ! how rapidly do the winged hours fly, 

 when the eye, the hand, the foot, have full occu- 

 pation.* The miles we travel then over hill and 



* What a pitiable objeft is a man at a fafhionable water- 

 ing-place, with nothing to do but to walk up and down, 

 up and down with the crowd on fome favourite lounging- 

 place, with no variation but a periodical peep at the Papers, 

 or a dim of goflip ferved up to him well feafonecl with 

 vinegar and pepper. 



