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innate sagacity have decided him on the right 

 one. He goes first, with a steady hut vigorous 

 effort forcing his way up the very centre of the 

 turbulent stream that rushes between the two 

 piers. He is right under the cataract ! A 

 moment's pause a poising of his elegant frame 

 at the very bottom of the pool beneath the fall 

 and then, suddenly, a quivering powerful stroke 

 from his expanded tail, and that man fishing 

 on the bank of the river sees him as well as our- 

 selves, sees him, however, only for a moment 

 a dark form amid the white flakes of the water- 

 fall and he is again lost to his view in the quiet 

 deep water above the causeway, where he pauses 

 to take breath, and wait for his expected partner. 



She is not long following him. Profiting by 

 his experience, she essays the same passage, and 

 to all appearance notwithstanding her more 

 weighty figure with equal power. The dark 

 green back of a salmon is again seen for a 

 moment, suspended as it were, among the glit- 

 tering spray, and she is with her mate, having 

 overcome one more peril on the way to Corwen. 



Well may they exhilarate in a sense of con- 

 scious security ! They may now follow the 

 devious windings of the tranquil river for miles 

 above Chester Causeway aud encounter neither 

 snare or obstacle ; neither net nor weir ; neither 



