[Illustration: "A SALMON TAKING A FLY"] * * * * * [Illustration: TRIALS OF A NOVICE.--_Friend_ (_in the distance_). "Enjoying it, old chap?" _Novice._ "_Rather!_"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Diminutive Nursemaid_ (_to angler, who has not had a bite for hours_). "Oh, please, sir, do let baby see you catch a fish!"] * * * * * [Illustration: "NOT PROVEN."--_Presbyterian Minister._ "Don't you know it's wicked to catch fish on the Sawbath?!" _Small Boy_ (_not having had a rise all the morning_). "Wha's catchin' fesh?!"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Old Gent_ (_who has recently purchased the property_). "Now, don't you boys know that nobody can catch fish in this stream except with my--er--a--special permit?" _Youthful Angler._ "Get away! Why, me and this 'ere kid's catched scores of 'em wi' a worrum!"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Angler_ (_after landing his tenth--reading notice_). "The man who wrote that sign couldn't have been using the right bait!"] * * * * * [Illustration: MISPLACED SYMPATHY.--"Well? Have you caught any fish, Billy?" "Well, I _really_ caught _two_! But they were quite young, poor little things, and so they _didn't know how to hold on_!"] * * * * * [Illustration: TRIALS OF A NOVICE _Angler._ "Hush! Keep _back_! Keep _back_! I had a beautiful rise just then; shall get another directly."] * * * * * [Illustration: DREADFUL SITUATION! _Party in Waders_ (_on the shallower side, with nice trout on_). "Now then, you idiot, bring me the net, can't you, or he'll be off in a second!"] * * * * * [Illustration: "Deuced odd, Donald, I can't get a fish over seven pounds, when they say Major Grant above us killed half a dozen last week that turned twenty pounds apiece!" _Donald._ "Aweel, sir, it's no that muckle odds i'th' sawmon,--but thae fowk up the watter is bigger leears than we are doon here!"] * * * * * [Illustration: "ONE GOOD TURN," ETC.--_City Man_ (_to one of his clerks he finds fishing in his ornamental water_). "Look here, Smithers, I've no objection to giving you a day now and then 'to attend your aunt's funeral'--but I think you might send some of the fish up to the house!"] * * * * * [Illustration: MISSED.--_Angus._ "Eh, man, that wass a splendid cod! If we had gotten that cod, noo, we micht ha' been ha'ein' a dram." _Mr. Smith_ (_from Glasgow_). "Indeed, and ye would, Angus." _Bauldry._ "Mebbe, Maister Smuth, if we wad have had a dram afore ye wass lettin' doon yer line, we micht have grappit that muckle fush!"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Friend._ "Hullo, old chappie! Fallen in?"