82 MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 



my return in 1860 from a six years' tramp, and we no 

 more lured the sunfish from the creeks, nor held disputes 

 over the species, age or other things appertaining to tur- 

 tles and tortoises. We left the frogs to be stoned by 

 younger boys, and contented ourselves with reminis- 

 cences of our mighty deeds, the only difference of opin- 

 ion, then and to-day, being the question which of us it 

 was that attempted to jump a stream and changed his 

 mind when half way across and stuck in the mud. I still 

 believe it was Charles. 



In the meantime he had undertaken long journeyings 

 abroad, and save a chamois hunt in Switzerland, with its 

 climbing, sliding, crevasse leaping and glacier scram- 

 bling, there was no shooting for two years. After wan- 

 dering through Germany and Italy, living on foot for 

 months along the valleys and on the mountains of Switz- 

 erland, he went back to France and made his home in the 

 Latin Quarter of Paris, along about in Trilby's time ; and 

 if he failed to meet Little Billee, I know by what he has 

 told me that he must have been on friendly terms with 

 Zoo Zou and the Laird, for he knew all the pretty songs 

 mentioned or hinted at in Mr. Du Maurier's truthful re- 

 cital of life "in the Quarter," and from conversation with 

 him within the year I gained the impression that he even 

 knows the fourth and expurgated verse of "Au Clair de la 

 Lune" Be that as it may, he returned to his native land 

 with the ripened experience of a man of the world, and a 

 mind well stored not only with the literature of various 

 countries, but enriched by that contact with the people of 

 those lands which only travel afoot can give. 



After his return the Insurance Department of the 

 State of New York was being organized by the Hon. 

 William Barnes, superintendent. Mr. Raymond was ap- 

 pointed to a clerkship in that office, from which he rose to 



