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Salmon, and being fairly hooked in the jaws. 

 Away went the astonished dog towards the oppo- 

 site shore— away went the Hne — and away went 

 the equally astonished angler himself, who, anxious 

 to save his tackle, and being withal of somewhat 

 pursy and plethoric habit, was obliged to make 

 desperate efforts to keep up with his novel dcHciiii. 

 Finding himself thus chased by what must have 

 appeared to him to be a man brandishing a huge 

 whip, the dog made for home as fast as his legs 

 could carry him, followed by the shouts of the 

 spectators, and also by his unwilling captor, who, 

 despite his obesity, gallantly maintained the race, 

 springing over " bank, bush, and scaur," and steer- 

 ing his prisoner safely through opposing furze- 

 brakes, until he landed him at his master's domicile. 



It once happened to me to hook a half-grown 

 wild duck, or " flapper," in a somewhat similar 

 manner in Loch Lochy, except that in this in- 

 stance the cast, which was made with a spinning 

 bait, was intentional. The duck, " hooked-foul " 

 as it was in the act of diving, continued submerged 

 until netted at the side of the boat. The author 

 of the " Angler's Rambles " mentions an anecdote 

 of a hare being thus taken with a trout-fly as she 

 was attempting to swim a river. The fly, adroitly 

 cast, stuck into the fur of her back, and, as her 

 captor remarked, landed her "comfortably." 



Curious instances are related of birds and other 

 animals accidently swallowing fish-hooks. Within 



