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pressed on their attention, when the inclination 

 to obey it is wanting. 



It can scarcely he too windy for Tal-y-llyn, 

 so long as you are able to sit in the boat and 

 keep your flies on the water : the sport is never 

 good until the wind runs high enough to cause 

 long streaks of foam along the lake, amongst 

 which you are almost always sure to rise fish, 

 but not always so sure to kill them ; they often, 

 particularly in the Autumn, rise short, or as 

 they call it in the north " close ill " that is in 

 play, not in earnest ; and I have found in such 

 cases the average to be one fish hooked for ten 

 or sometimes twelve rises. The best sport I 

 ever had on Tal-y-llyn, was on the 17th May, 

 1847, when between the hours of 12 and 2.30, I 

 killed 33 fish, weighing 12 Jibs. ; raining hard 

 all the time. 



CHESTER : 

 PRINTED AT THE COUHANT OFFICE, NORTHGATE STREET. 



