io6 Fly-Fifliing. 



true fecret of fuccefs in the majority of cafes 

 elafticity of mind that can make up for deficiencies, 

 by afTuming they do not exift ; and where all is 

 dark and gloomy, ftill cafting in a fweet ray of lin- 

 gering funlight. 



To make our walk more cheerful, I prefume, 

 my companion commenced relating ftories ; how 

 fome had wandered all night on the mountains, 

 and recovered not from their fatigue and fright for 

 days and days to come ; and how others, ftill worfe, 

 had been loft to their friends for ever on this fide 

 the grave ; having, it is fuppofed, mifled their foot- 

 ing, and been dafhed to atoms down fome frightful 

 precipice ! Very interefting talk, no doubt, under 

 any other than our prefent circumftances ! All the 

 while, be it remembered, we were fhut out from the 

 glorious profpecl:, as well as almoft from the frefh, 

 pure oxygen, by the choking, blinding mift, which 

 had become fo intenfe that, to all appearances, we 

 could grafp it in our hands. 



At length to our inexpreffible delight we difco- 

 vered a well-beaten track, and that not by fheep 

 only, but by fome of our own fpecies alfo. After 

 ftumbling along for fome time down this track, 

 we arrived at the bottom of the mountain ; and 

 ftrange to fay, the mift feemed to be then ftealing 



