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the water which, by the way, might possibly 

 have been the cause of the marvellous adven- 

 ture which befell him lower down. He was 

 wading, when all of a sudden he came upon the 

 most extraordinary rise of fishes in a pool that 

 he had ever seen in the most rampant May Fly 

 season scores of them were bobbing up on all 

 sides of him, and " ne'er a graylin' amang 'em," 

 as said the keeper who witnessed the scene 

 from the bank. It occurred to me -that this 

 packet of sandwiches, gradually swept down by 

 the stream into this trout pool, might have been 

 the true cause of the commotion among them 

 who knows ? Let some one try the experi- 

 ment by throwing away his own lunch into 

 the stream and watch for results ! But the 

 most extraordinary event that happened to 

 the Master on that eventful day was that, 

 struggling among the slippery stones in the 

 deep, he fell headlong into the water. He 

 scrambled out filled up with water, and nothing 

 dry but his hat, which he picked up, peacefully 

 floating on the surface. He was more than two 

 miles from home. He reached there with all 

 the speed he could muster, slipped into the 

 bathroom, had a hot bath and a change of 



