72 Fly-Fi/hing. 



on the water, (particularly the May-fly,) he was 

 a deadly enemy indeed to the fifh. Infmuating his 

 rod into apparently the moft inacceffible of places, 

 and dropping the natural fly on the furface of deep 

 holes that it was in vain to attempt reaching with 

 the artificial fly, it would have been ftrange in- 

 deed if fome of the heavieft fifh did not ufually 



From Providence 



Our confidence, 

 This boon we anglers crave j 



That we anon 



May angle on, 

 Safe to a peaceful grave." 



J. F. D. 



Thefe touching lines of a true heart, that kind old man 

 of our cloth J. F. D., whofe duty to his neighbours is of 

 fo acceptable a kind, that it is ever fpontaneous, and has 

 no parochial limits. He never met his fellow -man by 

 mountain or river, or in the broad and bye ways of life, 

 but he either made or endeavoured to make him his friend, 

 by making him his companion. 



The very beafts of the field know him by inftint, for he 

 ftops as he pafles to give even them a kind look, and fome 

 gentle word of his blefling, and neither grammar nor dic- 

 tionary are needed to tranflate them. 



O the blefled fuavity of a true, humane, Chriftian heart ! 

 let me pay homage to it, by quoting thefe few fimple lines 

 the dictates of its fpirit. 



