The North Country Angler. 3 L 



I went then up to the town, where two Gen- 

 tlemen had appointed to meet me, from Mor- 

 peth. We supped, and drank till twelve ; we 

 laid in the same room : I got up at four, called 

 the two, but only one would leave his bed so 

 soon ; we got a glass of wine, and went down to 

 my lines. I bad promised them to see such 

 fishing as they had never seen before. 



I drew my two short lines, and at the ten hooks 

 got nine trouts, the tenth was broke, four of them 

 eighteen or twenty inches long. 



My Gentleman would not be persuaded to stay 

 any longer; so we went up to the inn; he 

 awakened his friend, and shewed him the trouts, 

 telling him I could catch as many more ; he got 

 up, yawned, and swallowed a gill of mulled 

 wine ; then we went down to my other lines; he 

 said he would have given a crown to have seen 

 the nine taken, and could not imagine how it 

 could be done in half an hour's time. 



When we came to the two first lines, he saw 

 the trouts struggling, but did not observe the 

 lines: I got twelve at these two; three or four 

 of which were ahout twenty inches : at the other 

 two I got but four, one a salmon trout, and 

 that great trout I had seen feeding, as I 

 supposed, by his size, which was twenty-three 

 inches. We dined on trouts; and I sent my 

 two friends, home at three o'clock, with four- 

 teen birge trouts, such as they had never seen 

 before. 



1 mention this story, because, from that time 

 I formed such an idea of the trout's feeding, that 

 I can tell as soon as I see any stream or poo], 



