The Portland daily press., 1869-08-03
DAILY PRESS.
''f" CORTLAND.
Tuesday Morning, August 8, 1852
Republican Nominations.
FOR G0vRRyOR 5r
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
PORTLAND.
. Tuesday Morning, August 8, 1852
,lican nominations.
Dog Days I'm the Country, with senacthins
asa about Trout Rishinx s \
OF BRUNSWICK.

aat abons Trout Fishing. s =,
"UP COUNTRY" July 81, 1860. 4
To the Editor efAe Pres. to'
There is one notice which deserves special
mention in connection with this summers
travel. 1t is the dog mania. Dogs never
were SO prevalent among travellers as this
season. Every stage has some passenger Or
passengers, each trip, given over to the raging
sentiment. To get inside or outside and not
find yourself alongside of a delicate female
who "cuddles' upa diminutiye dog, is ava
riety. There must be some method in this
somehow. 1 fancy that, someway, dogs are
coming into style in connection with dress.
In LONDON, they say, modern swells carry lit
tie dogs under their arms, and canicuiture
is profitable business. King Charles, The
Second, you know, used to carry basket OF
little spaniels about him habitually, and he
seemed almost to have lived for this purp-s'
What splendid idea it would be for the Ia
eies to wear little baskets Of white mice as an
offset to the dog-mania on the part Of the
men and the more radical of their own sex.
Perhaps, however, ,'itl would be best to await
the next development, and what do you SUP
pose it will be-? think it viii be dog in tae-
q Why snota 1t Is, cheap and
much handler thaniwearing them under the
arm, or leading them by strings and covering
them with ribbons, collars and blankets. But
1 have no dogmatic opinions on the question:
and it is only my purpose to speak cutsorily.
- ABOUT THE FISHING. a
One day, along with small boy, 1 went to
that classic part OF New Hampshire known as
Chatham, and the particular part Of Chatham
known as Screen Hill.Y Across the road that
winds alsng the hills, many . mountain brook
runs, and upon one of these 1 made my first
attempt at strout-fshing. Good luck for q
season, for the sun had been terribly hot and
now the heavens were darkened, and the vast
mountain ranges on the west were hung
about with black clouds that chased each 9TH
er like dark phantoms over billowy seas
Clambering alown this rough pasture rs
ssWhere the tangled barberry bushes
= anH Hang their tults Of rmson berries lHsai O.
Over stone walls grey with molses," lts b.
1 soon found a. beginning of anticipated
sport, but it was a joy that could not last. I
had travelled scarce half an hour, when in Che
deep, dark. and thick woods below, the great
rain drops began to strike, ag'i s-sa WA. 7 .
And the thunder in the mountains, ir
t,.-t Whose innnmerable echoes gs-T :
"s"'v FLAP like eagles IN their eyries ~ = =
told of the ierceness of the coming storm.
1t was wisdom to run, homeward, but 1t was
no easy job to escape from that network of
second grow aeiia m4oi adi iqmsne u +.
i m Meantime, just as I had struck friendly
meadow, and the storm was still confined to-
the highlands, an old farmer, friend Of years
ago, plying my poor plight, proposed to add
a score or two to my sstring" by fishing with
his hands in little pool ieft ragnsnt By the
summer drought. Leaving bis hay cart partly
loaded. and his gooS wife standing anxlously
by. be = made sssle dcxtrous passes with bis
brawny HANDS in the dark pool, and, spre
enough, brought out two beauties in quick
succession., But alasi the rain was now
pouring IN torrents, and the wife was ve4ed
at the wetting of the hay, the old man looked
histur0ed, and I could only mutter regrets
and make off across the fields as best could,
pejted to the skin by the remorseless rain
that came down in great sheets, in utter Dis
regard of globular formations. When Ireachr
ed the house where the team was, / vas
drencbed, and my new cucumber" came but
a squash. Gladly I availed myself Of Offers OF
something to eat and drink, which came in
the shape of spruce beer, excellent bread and
butter and maple sugar, with berries Of vast
proportions. And thus ended the first skir-
mish, which could not be claimed to be de-
cisiye; and now comes the battle iiaN
Whittier tells howl IS, Nte W faNH =.
s. ssIhree friends, the guests OF summer time, sr
Pitched their tents where sea-winds blew" / ri
Ours was a party that clung still to the
valleys, burnt through by. the sumrer
heat. ID We had read many pastoral to-
gether in the. years gone BY aud now
met for the first time, all together,
since the old school-boy days, I will pct
prolong the story, but tell you, with all the
exac.ness of truth and soberness, that pur
party took from one well-known stream in
western Oxford county, fiye hupdred and
twenty seven as fine brook trout as ever
swan, Now, I am particular, and even SEN
sitive about this number. On no account
could take off one trout, and please do not
{ ask it.E I,know you may flap about the brink
of this torrent of fish story, but I beg you be-
lieve tell you truth, and it would oalnost
make me sad IL felt you thought Irvere
ltrihing. And they were net little ones, but
would average from four to six to the pound,
with, of course, some small and some still
much larger ones. And Oh! such fun. Not
even the lively fancy OF Mr.. Joe Gargery ever
pictured to the demurely listening "Rip'
such "larks" as we have had. 1t is some
thing Lot to be despised to wade a broad and
beautiful trout stream three miles, over peb-
bly,, sandy or grassy lbottoms,a among hills
that shut out the sun except at midday,
through clean green woods where dark-eged
Dryads might wanton, and clearings through
which the stream dances along like great
sheen of silvery light. = g =, NJ .'s
But perhaps you do not care for all this,
you chaps who are to day sitting with poised
pencil or, scissors, essaying the hard task OF
making or discovering news in the dreary
wastes OF dog day times, when even politica
boilings only simmer, and when the surface ol
the great sea of public sentiment Is alone clett
by the keel of the Stockton bark as its
bright new sails court the gracious favor ol
the gods Unpopular breezes. "a
The @Husbandman" would enjoy this, and
it would delight my eyes tc see his good ma
tured face light up with just; appreciation of
these gladsome scenes, He win read the token
here, for he has often told us all some pleas
ant things of times like these and something
Hon the string." rid al sst siaoe 81 iNox.
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