40 Ffy-Ft/hing. 



nothing would do but he muft give me a praH- 

 cal hint or too on trolling, which he feemed bent 

 on recommending to me ; though I thought it then, 

 and ftill think it unworthy the notice of the fly- 

 rimer. Deadly, if pra&ifed aright, I admit it to 

 be ; but decidedly attended with a greater degree of 

 cruelty, than its fuccefs can reconcile to my feel- 

 ings at leaft. The triangles that the whirling min- 

 now is encircled with Oh ! how they clafp the 

 unhappy fifh in their fatal embrace ! It is no cal- 

 lous fubftance they ufually penetrate, that in nine 

 cafes out of ten the artificial fly adheres to in the 

 fifti's mouth ; but deeply imbedded in the flirink- 

 ing flem, thefe terrible triangles never relax their 

 hold till dragged out of the mangled creature by 

 the hand of the fifherman. 



***** 



Clericus. Well, you are indeed punctual as 

 clock-work ! It is juft on the flroke of fix, the 

 time we fixed on for our meeting. 



Old Soldier. For the like of me, fir, not to be 

 punctual, would be a bad job, confidering the 

 fchool I have been taught in. 



Clericus. The water feems a trifle too thick, 

 even for a minnow.* 



* A good hand will kill trout with a minnow on the 



