But let me strongly recommend Aransas Pass in September.

There is good quail-shooting, rabbits, and thousands of water-fowl of every description; also a very fair little hotel where I happened to be almost the only visitor.

At Catalina Islands, by the way, whose climate is absolutely delightful, where there are good hotels, and where the visitors pass the whole day in the water or on land in their bathing-suits, one can hire glass-bottom boats, whereby to view the wonderful and exquisitely beautiful flora of the sea, and watch the movements of the many brilliantly-coloured fish and other creatures that inhabit it.

The extraordinary clearness of the water there is particularly favourable for the inspection of these fairy bowers.

One day I determined to try for a Jew-fish, just to see how such a huge, ungainly monster would act.