A KING AMONG ANGLERS. I4I 
but the contest for the county, and which he 
understood would lie between Lord Lowther (the 
sitting member) and Mr. Brougham. But, to his 
sore perplexity, he heard the names of new candi- 
dates, to him hitherto unknown. Andon meeting 
Wilson, he told him with a serious countenance 
that Lord Lowther would be ousted, for that the 
struggle, so far as he could learn, would ultimately 
be between Thomas Ford, of Egremont, and 
William Richardson, of Caldbeck, men of no 
landed property, and probably Radicals, This 
contest was at Carlisle, and had no political com- 
plexion whatever. 
One of the great resorts of the literary coterie 
of the Lakes during Wilson’s time was the little 
mountain inn at Wastdale Head, kept by the 
Tysons. Upon one occasion the Professor pro- 
posed a sail on Wastwater, and when well into 
the middle of the tarn he fell overboard. 
There was great consternation in the boat, 
and first one and then another made a grab 
at him, though to the peril of every one in the 
tub. Wilson could not restrain his laughter, 
however, as he was pulled aboard, and the 
rescuers found that one more prank had been 
played upon them. Old Tyson describes Wilson 
as a “fine, gay, girt-hearted fellow, as strang as 
a lion, an’ as lish as a troot, an’ he hed sic antics 
