34 DAYS IN DOVE DALE 



I had, on a previous occasion, found a 

 landing net a quite unnecessary encumbrance, 

 so now that I sorely needed it I had not 

 brought it with me. By degrees my trout 

 seemed to become exhausted by the unequal 

 struggle, and for a moment lay up on a tuft 

 of grass nearly out of the water, apparently 

 to take breath. 



I thought it best not to give him time to re- 

 gain his strength, so I gently lifted him straight 

 up from his grassy bed and threw him on to 

 another not quite so congenial to him ; but 

 I had him safe. 



I had got him only by the skin of his teeth, 

 for he fell on terra firma freed from the hook, 

 and I was puzzled to know which of my 

 doughty flies had performed the deadly deed. 



"Still fisheth he that catcheth one.' 



G. HERBERT. 



Thus encouraged I may say, perhaps, unduly 

 elated inch by inch I flogged that pretty 

 pool, but with no more success, so on I went 

 to another cascade ; and there, to my perfect 

 bewilderment, I hooked and landed another 

 trout, under circumstances so exactly like the 



