. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . leasant pastime of angling. CHAPTEE XV. IN CAMP THE INDIAN GAFFER THE ADVANTAGES OF PEESEEVED WATEES. Here, or in some such devoted solitude, should dwell theMuse and compose a treatise on the worship of the Dryads.—\Thoreau. Blessed silent groves! O may you beForever mirths best nursery! May pure contents Forever pitch their tentsUpon these downs, these meeds, these rocks, these mountains,And peace still slumber by the purling fountains, Which we may every year Meet, when we come a-fishing here. — [Sir Henry Wotton. IUR first cam
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . leasant pastime of angling. CHAPTEE XV. IN CAMP THE INDIAN GAFFER THE ADVANTAGES OF PEESEEVED WATEES. Here, or in some such devoted solitude, should dwell theMuse and compose a treatise on the worship of the Dryads.—\Thoreau. Blessed silent groves! O may you beForever mirths best nursery! May pure contents Forever pitch their tentsUpon these downs, these meeds, these rocks, these mountains,And peace still slumber by the purling fountains, Which we may every year Meet, when we come a-fishing here. — [Sir Henry Wotton. IUR first camping ground was twelvemiles from the mouth of the riverand combined all the elements ofpicturesqueness and grandeur—averdant plain encircled by loftymountains, only broken by a cleftof sufficient breadth to give egressto the crystal river, whose leapingwaters filled our camp with per-petual melody. We reached it, aslast year, by canoes which awaited our coming,and of which we instantly availed ourselves toreach our coveted Mecca. I was greatly pleased14. 106 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. to find that my last years guides were again atmy service. I wished no better, and I wasflattered by their salutation and their assurancethat they wished to render service to no morepatient angler. No one of the party had reasonto murmur at the men assigned him. All seemedequally expert with paddle and setting pole, andall, with a single exception, could gaff his fish atthe right moment and with mathematical pre-cision. If they occasionally missed, and, by afalse stroke, lost their prize, it is only what some-times happens to the best and wisest in every de-partment of life. What a raree show for anadmiring world would that man be who had neverblundered! Of some of the mistakes made in gaf-fing, and of the effect of these mistakes upon themild-tempered gentlemen who were the victims ofthem, I shall have something to say hereafter —only remarking now, in passing, that skill in gaffingis consider
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