280 AMERICAN FISHES. 



line from the whizzing reel, and giving a long run down wind, there 

 is perhaps no sport in existence more full of pleasant excitement and 

 adventure. 



Nor when taken, is the prisoner unworthy of the pains it has cost to 

 kill him ; for although smaller, he is in all other respects nearly of 

 equal excellence with the true Salmon, and occupies a place second to 

 him alone, with the judicious epicure. 



Right well would it repay some of our gallant yaehters, to turn the 

 heads of their tight crafta easterly, and bear away, as the old song has ■ 

 it, with a wet sheet and a flowing sail, for the rock-bound shores of 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, for once there, right hospitable 

 Would they find their welcome, and their sport right royal. 



