46 SALMONIA. [second day. 



HAL. — Take care. He lias turned you, and you 

 have suffered him to run out your Hue, and he is gone 

 into the weeds under the willow : let him fall down 

 stream. 



POIET. — I cannot get him out. 



HAL. — Then wind up. I fear he is lost, yet we 

 will try to recover hhn by taking the boat up. The 

 line is loose ; he has left the link entangled in the 

 weeds, and carried your fly with him. He must have 

 been a large fish, or he could not have disentangled 

 himself from so strong a gut. Try again, there are 

 fish now rising above and below ; where the water is 

 in motion, opposite that willow, there are two fish 

 rising. 



POIET. — I have one of them. 



HAL. — Now you are doing well. Down with the 

 boat, and drag your fish downwards. Continue to do 

 so, as there are weeds all round you. You can 

 master liim now ; keep him high, and he is your own. 

 Put the net under hhn, and bring him into the boat ; 

 he is a well-fed fish, but not of the proper size for a 

 victim, — about 2 lbs. Now, Physicus, try your fortune 

 with the fish above, that rises so merrily still. You 

 have him! Now use hhn as Poietes did the last. 

 Yery well ; I see he is a large fish, — take your time. 

 He is landed; a fish nearly of 3 lbs., and in excellent 

 season. 



