TAKING A SALMO IIUCIIO. 229 



peculiar to the salmo genus, and, if lie catches 

 sight of me, will certainly not run at the bait. 



Orn. — You spin the bleak for him, I see, 

 as for a great trout. O ! there ! he has run 

 at it — and you have missed him. What a 

 fish! You surely were too quick, for he 

 sprung out of the water at the bleak. 



Hal. — I was not too quick ; but he rose 

 just as the bleak was on the surface, and 

 saw me ; and now he is frightened, and gone 

 down into the deep water. We must retire 

 till we see him feeding again, which will be, 

 I hope, in some minutes, for his violence 

 shows he is not yet satisfied. 



Poiet. — I think I saw him moving in 

 another part of the pool : it is now ten 

 minutes since we saw him last. 



Hal. — You are right; he is again on the 

 feed, and in a place where we have a bet- 

 ter chance of hooking him, as the water is 

 deeper and in the shade. He has run again 

 at the bleak, but only as it shone on the 

 surface — but he is not frightened. Ah! he 

 has taken it, and is floundering and strug- 

 gling! He is a powerful fish. 



