THE MAYOR'S VICTORY. 227 



day it was found that I was beaten in the count by one 

 trout. My friend caught one and saved him ; and I had a 

 controversy with a single trout, he on one side of a log and 

 I on the other, in which he came off and got off best. That 

 fish lamented a lacerated mouth, and I a quarter-of-a- 

 pound trout. 



