46 SALMON FISHING IN CAJS"ADA. 



"Duljlin, 41 Upper M. Street. 

 19th July, 1845. 



" My deae Friend, — I rejoiced at receiving your epistle, 

 notwithstanding that it was silent as to my last to 

 you. Perhaps it will not surprise you to learn that I 

 have cut the old profession, and become a probationer at 

 the ' otium cum dignitate,' whereby and by which I have 

 so totally forgotten everything belonging to law, that I am 

 obliged to resort for explanation of any thing legal to my 

 professional adviser. It follows therefore that it is out of 

 my power to tell you what j^ou are to do with Bluack. 

 When I was in the profession, as well as I can recollect, I 

 would have advised a bill to remove him or make him 

 account; for, by the piper, he seems a most negligent 

 trustee in one respect, inasmuch as he leaves the money 

 he should take and make fructify — uselesslj' Ijdng in the 

 bank, and the cash he has taken into his employment he 

 employs to his o^vn benefit and your loss. I am told he 

 is an honourable man and of strict integrity, but, by the 

 honour of man, he has a queer way of showing it. How- 

 ever, as you do not much want it now, it mil, I suppose, 

 accumulate for the benefit of those who shall come after 

 you, called posterity. 



" I essayed to gratify your desire for the ' Fiery Brown,' 

 immediately upon learning your wishes, and Til ever 

 remember the day,' as the song has it, for ' may I never 

 do an ill tm'n ' but I was near suffering for it. 



