85 Fly-FiJhing. 



and fpiders, and fuch-like infects can comfortably 

 keep their footing on. 



And here, kind reader, in thefe days of free- 

 trade, when cheapnefs is the "fine qua non " only 

 thought of, (by a certain " clique" at leaft, we 

 wont mention names,) fhould any of our brethren 

 of the craft fwell with their fweet voices the fafhion- 

 able cry, they may like to know how it is poflible, 

 without coming within the verge of "Martin's 

 Aft" to make one pony anfwer the purpofe of two, 

 in helping them to the place of their deftination in 

 a mountainous diftnct. To the inventive faculties 

 of my friend Pifcator, is the difcovery due, that a 

 pony's tail may be as ufeful as his back in fuch an 

 emergency. Hanging by the one, and feated on 

 the other, did we afcend the fides of the aforefaid 

 mountain on the day in queftion, to the entire fa- 

 tisfa&ion of all parties, Polly included. 



That I am right in afTerting thus much, is clear 

 from the verbal aflurance of the two-legged ani- 

 mals, and the fame meafured ftep and fedate bear- 

 ing of the four-legged one, which the latter would 

 not have exhibited, had the even tenour of her 

 temper been the leaft ruffled, as it was when I faw 

 her launch out from behind, to the no fmall dif- 

 may of Richard, when he attempted to deprive 



