88 Fly-Fifhing. 



knows (he is repaying her matter, who provides 

 her with food and lodging. Not fo, when her 

 work is done; (he is her own miftrefs then, and 

 woe betide her mafter, or thee, good Richard, (as 

 you have experienced,) if you rafhly interfere with 

 her. 



What would a Londoner of pure cockney blood 

 fay, if fuddenly tranfported, fome fine morning, 

 from the heart of the fmoky city to the top of the 

 black mountain ? How would he feel ? Like 

 one of the fpeckled beauties Pifcator is fo fkilful 

 in dragging " nolens volens " out of the water to 

 the greenfward at his feet ; glancing on every 

 fide with his reftlefs, unquiet eye, and evidently no 

 lefs annoyed than amazed, at the unlooked-for 

 change ? Or, as we agreed, we felt on the memo- 

 rable occafion in queftion ? elevated in fentiment 

 as well as fituation, with fomewhat of that mental 

 elevation that foars, for a time at leaft, above the 

 ordinary concerns of life, as well as the private 

 fancies and felfim predilections that will prevail 

 oftener than mould be, and prevent perfonal peace 

 and harmony within. 



Is it the fenfe of labour furmounted, with the 

 agreeable relaxation of thews and finews, that are 

 called into fuch unufual play, (not forgetting the 



