AN ODD SPECIMEN.


CHAPTER I.

“I in these flowery meads would be;

These crystal streams should solace me;

To whose harmonious, bubbling noise

I with my angle would rejoice.”

Walton.

AN ANGLER’S SOLILOQUY.—ISAAK WALTON’S IDEAS.—A FISHING MINISTER.—THE ROUTE TO THE WOODS.—MOOSEHEAD LAKE AND VICINITY.