34 SALM0N1A. [second day. 



HAL. — Unluckily, it is a dace. 



PUTS. — I have now a larger fish, which has pulled 

 my line out. 



HAL — Give him time. That is a good trout. Now 

 wind up ; he is tired, and your own. I will land hhn. 

 He is a fish to keep, being above 2 lbs. 



PHYS. — I am well pleased. 



HAL. — There are many larger trouts here : go on 

 fishing, and you will hook some of them. And when 

 you are tired of this rapid, you will find another a 

 quarter of a mile below. And continue to fish with a 

 short line, and drop your fly, or let it be carried by 

 the wind on the water, as lightly as possible. Well, 

 Poietes, what success ? 



POIET. — I have been fishing in the stream above ; 

 but the flies are so abundant, that the large fish will 

 not take my artificial fly, and I have caught only 

 three fish, all of which the fisherman has thrown into 

 the water, though I am sure one of them was more 

 than 2 lbs. 



HAL. — You may trust his knowledge : with a new 

 angler, our keeper would be apt rather to favour the 

 fisherman than the fish. But we will have all fish 

 you wish to be killed, and above 2 lbs., put into the 

 well of the boat, where they can be examined, and, if 

 you desire, weighed and measured, and such kept as are 

 worth keeping. No good angler should kill a fish, if 



