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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 be- 

 low. 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 de- 

 sire, weighed and measured, and such kept as 

 are worth keeping. No good angler should 

 kill a fish, if possible, till he is needed to be 

 crimped ; for the sooner he is dressed after 

 this operation the better ; — and I assure you, 

 a well-fed trout of the Colne, crimped and 



