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person following him about, with what must have 

 appeared to him a long whip, and feeling something 

 pulling at his mouth, approached his masters, trem 

 bling all over ; as soon as the line was slackened, the 

 ny, which had merely stuck in the lip, dropped out, 

 and no injury was done to either rod, line, or dog. 



About Southgate there are many rivulets; one 

 near East Barnet, called Salmon Brook ! Why, I 

 know not, as that fish could never have visited it. 



Abont six miles and a half on the Edgware Eoad, 

 at a place called the Hyde, is a piece of water, at the 

 Welsh Harp, where, I have been told, there is very 

 good pond angling, by paying a moderate sum. 



I was once induced, a very few years ago, to go 

 by railway to Stratford, and walk thence to a hamlet 

 called Philibrook, near two miles to the left from the 

 station, towards Leyton, where, in a large pond, 

 called Rockholts Point, I was informed I should find 

 plenty of fish ; but the person who obtained the per 

 mission as a favour, it being private property, could 

 not tell me of what species they were. I therefore 

 burthened myself with a long rod, artificial minnows, 

 gudgeons, worms, and paste, and went to the water, 

 which was, I think, nearly or quite a furlong and a 

 half, or more, long probably forty yards wide, about 

 two feet deep, free of weeds, and so clear that I 

 could see all over it but no fish of any kind appeared. 



