breeds. Since returning home I have had three different specimens of it, and have thus gained woeful experience of that delicateness of constitution which is such a drawback to the widening of the circle of its friends; for no man likes to nurse a hound through two or three severe illnesses, and then have him carried off by a fourth. Cannot some Bloodhound Society import a few of the hardy American specimens, and thus strengthen our own? Unfortunately I never met with but the one sample of which this true tale tells, and so can give no further information upon the point; but with Colonel -—————'s description, as given above, breeders may judge how little harm and how much real good might come of importing a few such hounds as the one who came on me so uncannily in the wilds of Wyoming.

GOOD fresh-water fishing is no easy thing to find in these days. All the best is taken up and jealously preserved; most of the so-called 'open' fishing is hardly worth trying, so that a man of moderate means who contemplates a fishing holiday finds more and more difficulty in discovering a place where he can combine decent sport with reasonably economical living.

'Sea Fishing,' one of the latest additions to the Badminton Library, opens out a new and a wide field to the enterprising angler; and, I fancy, as the years go on, more and more disappointed fishermen will desert the river for the sea.

I cannot imagine a pleasanter holiday for three or four men who are fond of the sea, and who do not mind roughing it a little, than a fishing trip in a small yacht for, say, a fortnight or a month among the fiords of the West Coast of Scotland. In June or July the weather on that coast is usually fine, the prospect of good sport most encouraging, and the scenery too well known to need description.

An obsolete cruiser of fifteen or twenty tons, or a good stout fishing-boat, can easily be hired in the Clyde, and the cost of such hire, with, say, a couple of men ought to compare very favourably with the usual hotel charges. Fuel and oil would not be a serious

Brooks or Hearder of Plymouth, twisted and single gut traces, with strong swivels, some white, red, and yellow flies of various sizes, plenty of pipe leads of various weights, and a couple of strong gaffs, complete the outfit. Any one contemplating such an expedition as I have de

scribed would do well to consult the pages of Sea Fishing' carefully before purchasing his tackle, as he will find everything that he is likely to require and all the newest patterns lucidly described, and ample instructions laid down for the capture of any fish he may expect to fall in with. My object, therefore, will be to indicate the places where good sport ought to be obtained, and where we have ourselves been successful.

In the accompanying map I have marked all the places where we have done well or which have a local reputation with a; and those which from the character of the ground and the tidal currents ought to be good with a +.

It will be observed that a + is to be seen at

the Mull of Cantyre, and

as that place is treated with great respect by the navigators on that coast, it would be well to explain how we came to be fishing there. We were bound from Larne to Oban, and ran The tide was into calm just before we reached the Mull.

setting to the northward with great strength, and as we swept past the headland in a regular boil of tides, we tried the experiment

of putting over a couple of mackerel lines with 4-lb. leads, gut traces, and red eels. We caught five fish as we drifted, the smallest being 12 lb., the largest nearly 19 lb. From this I imagine that, if one was to bring up in Campbelton in settled weather, fine sport might be found round the Mull; but it must be remembered that it is by no means a place for tiros to start on their own account. The wind rises quickly, and if it is blowing

against the tide, raises a heavy breaking sea, in the last degree dangerous for an open boat. Even in the calmest weather the young flood brings in a heavy surf, and therefore it is no place to trifle with, and the barometer must be carefully watched.

From the Mull to Oban there are many places which look promising from the point of view of the lythe fisherman, and among the bays a long line can be advantageously used in the evenings. Of that part of the coast, however, I have little personal