But, as

on a salmon river would not be tedious. you regard your own comfort and the comfort of others, do not assume that, because your friend finds his highest pleasure in the practice of the gentle art, you also must needs be happy in its pursuit.

To give variety to our trip we took carriages from New Richmond for a thirty-mile ride along the borders of the Bay of Chaleur; and we enjoyed it greatly. Almost the whole distance is a continuous village, and nearly all the houses are the abodes of men who make a precarious living by catching and curing codfish for the markets of the world. For more than a hundred and fifty years this has been the chief occupation of all the residents of this coast. The result is extreme poverty and contentment. The men of to-day live and labor as their fathers had done through many generations. This, however, can be said for them

they are the most polite people on the continent. Meet whom you would, man or boy, on foot or borne along in his rickety cart or jaunty calash, no matter, you were sure of a graceful greeting. During our ride of thirty miles, in no single instance was this act of courtesy forgotten. It was a custom I had met nowhere else in all my wanderings.

Taking the steamboat at Paspebiac, we had a

pleasant two days' sail through the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Quebec, thence by rail to Montreal and home-grateful for what we had enjoyed, and hopeful of the return of another season when we shall again be able to "go a-fishing."

TROUT FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACKS.

Angling is somewhat like poetry: men are to be born soI mean with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice. But he that hopes to be a good angler must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself. But having once got and practiced it, then doubt not but that angling will be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.-[Sir Izaak Walton.

HAVE discovered that many beside experts take pleasure in reading whatever is said in praise of angling. They have the good taste to appreciate a healthful amusement which they have not the leisure to enjoy. I made this disdiscovery many years ago, when I began a series of letters from "The Woods," which I kept up without intermission until that summer of disasters when McClellan led so many of our brave boys to defeat and death. It seemed like mockery to draw pleasant pictures or speak of personal