200 A Sportsman at Large 



to heart, refused his food, and fell into a state of obvious 

 despondency. 



At the end of the fifth day, when we were sitting down to 

 dinner, I felt one trembling paw on my knee. There was the 

 wretched Billy, with such a look of abject misery on his 

 upturned face that I began to relent. 



' Cockie, dear," said the C.O. pleadingly, " do forgive 

 Billy, he has been punished enough. Ever since you gave 

 him the lemon eye, he has been eating his poor little heart 

 out. Look at him now ! Can you resist him ? " 



I could not ! 



When I spoke to him and stroked his head, the unbounded 

 joy of that terrier was a treat to behold, and an object lesson 

 in canine psychology ! 



I started out on this section of my experiences with a view 

 to describing the sport which I enjoyed with the salmo genus 

 on the occasion of my first visit to Norway ; but I have 

 wandered, all too far, into a dissertation wherein dogs and 

 crows have usurped the space which should have been devoted 

 to fish and fishing. 



So let us hark back to the evening when our cavalcade and 

 impedimenta arrived at Harang. 



Leaving the rest of my entourage to unpack and put things 

 straight a job which I simply loathe I drew the cheery Peter 

 into conversation on the all-absorbing topic of sport. I 

 found that he was quite conversant with the English tongue ; 

 though he voiced it in a decidedly quaint way. He told me 

 that the river was now in excellent ply, and that there was a 

 good show of running fish. 



It was then about n p.m. (not " summer time "), but still 

 quite light. I asked Peter if there was a pool handy where, 

 if I got a move on, I might have a chance to celebrate my 

 arrival in the land of his forefathers by the capture of a salmon. 



" Oo, yez," he said enthusiastically. " There'm Solem pol. 

 You'm catch'm stor fisk ther, yeu tink." 



Which being translated reads : 



" Oh, yes. There is Solem pool. You would get a big fish 

 there, I think ! " 



Now this Solem pool was doubtless the best in the whole 



