fisting itself ; we returned with an appetite no ploughman could 

 surpass. 



" On the return from the Remoux St. Jean, the anjmal part of 

 our nature became very troublesome and clamorous^ and I could 

 not help contemplating the certain sweetness of some Vauxhall 

 slices from the admirable Westphalia we had for-dinner the day 

 before. The waking Ti&ion of their sweet diaphanous fat, and 

 high-flavoured lean, even haunted me when shaving, and flitted 

 between my eyes and the glass. But when that disgusting ope- 

 ration and its concomitants were over, nature Could bear no 

 longer without possible injury to the gastric coats, and, we sat 

 down to table. There-'— "Aoresco re/erens !" was every thing 

 else — but — 



" ' In the middle a place where the jamhon was not; " 



0, misery of miseries — the whole succulent and delicious ham — 

 manifest product of a high caste, gramnivorous pig which had 

 lived all its amiable life under the shade of oaks and chesnuts, 

 browsing upon their nuts — had been feloniously abstracted from 

 the larder by some vile Philistine I 



" Next morning one of our best salmon was stolen from the 

 tub. 



" 0, Louis Joseph Papineau I to our dying day will we hold 

 thee responsible for this outrage. 



" By the middle of the week the river had fallen sufficiently to 

 allow fishing in the " Grand Rets," out of which I picked seve- 

 ral salmon ; but one large fellow, who had been there for som6 

 days, would repeatedly come up to the fly — reconnoitre it care- 

 fully, and then dip into the deep water again, evidently not lik- 

 ing its appearance. Where I sat on the edge of the rock, was 

 not more than eight or ten feet from the surface of the hole, so 

 as to enable me to see his motions very distinctly. I tried va- 

 rious flies to tempt his palate, and even dressed some for his ex- 

 press use, but all in vain. The fastidious gentleman would tan- 

 talize me by darting at the fly, turning one eye to examine it 

 more closely — even touching it with his nose^^but he would ne-i 

 ■ver open his mouth. 



