Sketches of New England Or Memories of the Country
Sketches of New England Or Memories of the Country
N S Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge
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It is no infrequent thing for our trout anglers to be THE VILLAGE. 207 absent among the mountains for seveical days together, tracing the streams through their thousand windings, and plying their finest art, in luring from the deep holes and undisturbed haunts the old monarchs of the streams. In such cases, they trust to chance for food and lodg- ing ; and though sometimes falling in with the " sweet lavendered cottage" of old Isaac Walton, they more often meet ludicrous and uncomfortable adven...tures. A friend of mine, who was out on one of these excursions last summer, sent home to his good lady an epistle, so descriptive of angler's luck, that I cannot forbear giv- ing it to the reader. " I am seated this morning, just a quarter to five, To tell you, dear wifie, I'm scarcely alive, For in truih, all the night, I've had sadly to do With the varmint^ which live in the beds of Peru; I had scarce laid aside my fish-gear, and crept Into sheets, where I'm sure half-a-dozen had slept ; And had just begun dozing, and dreaming away Of trout, flies, three twisters, and jaunts of the day, — When, by Jupiter Ammon, there came such a scout Of mosquitoes and bed bugs, a rascally route, And on legs, arms, and stomach, committed such revels, As nothing could equal, not St.
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