. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . sent. The Judgealso delighted every one by his good-humored ren-dering of that classically pathetic ballad, SamJones, the fisherman, while Dun brought tears tothe eyes of his susceptible audience by artisticallychanting that profoundly plaintive ditty : On Springfield mountains there did dwell,A comely youth I knew full well,— which comely youth, it may be remembered,having been cruelly jilted, wandered off broken-hearted to die ignominiously from the bite of apesky sarpent. In reportorial parlance, nothing occurred tomar the fest
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . sent. The Judgealso delighted every one by his good-humored ren-dering of that classically pathetic ballad, SamJones, the fisherman, while Dun brought tears tothe eyes of his susceptible audience by artisticallychanting that profoundly plaintive ditty : On Springfield mountains there did dwell,A comely youth I knew full well,— which comely youth, it may be remembered,having been cruelly jilted, wandered off broken-hearted to die ignominiously from the bite of apesky sarpent. In reportorial parlance, nothing occurred tomar the festivities of the occasion, and all retiredat an early hour the happier for having participatedin the innocent hilarity of the evening. CHAPTEE XIX. A SEAKCH AFTER SOLITUDE. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. — \_Shakspeare. It may be laid down as a position which will seldom de-ceive, that when a man cannot bear his own company, thereis something wrong.—[Dr. Sg AVING fished all the pools in theneighborhood of our main camp,I fancied that I could enjoy my-self for a little while in a some-what more primitive manner,alone, fishing some famous poolsten or twelve miles higher upthe river. For, to tell the truth,our luxurious surroundings hardlycomported with my early educa-tion in wood-craft, or with my ideas of the ma-terial elements which should enter into the camp-life of those who were even ostensibly roughingit. Our commissary had assured us that it wouldbe good for our general health to live low on theriver. But what a strange conception he had of 144 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. low living ! Delicious bacon, smoked ham, broiledsalmon, fried trout, with occasional broiled springchickens, tea and coffee, and oat-meal porridge withcream for breakfast! Canned ox-tail, chicken orturtle soup, with boiled salmon, roast or stewedlamb (fresh from a neighboring flock), plumb-pud-ding, with
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