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have let him put in his lines where he pleased 

 in every pool we came at, and yet I have killed 

 three for his one, by laying between his lines 

 and the deeps. All fording places are good in 

 floods. 



I must confess that this is a very troublesome 

 and fatiguing way of fishing; but to make amends 

 for that, it is a never-failing method ; and will 

 bring you the most and best fish when you are 

 sleeping in your bed. Sometimes, the lesser 

 stone will get fast between two stones, &c. and 

 you will be forced to break the line; to prevent 

 the losing a hook, in such a case, I loop on to 

 one end of every line, about a yard of smaller 

 and weaker twine, which I loop on to the little 

 stone, that it may break, and save all my other 

 line and hooks. 



CHAP. XXVI. 



How to catch most of the Trouts and Eels that 

 are in little Burns or Becks. 



JL HERE are few, if any, little rivulets or becks 

 that run into greater rivers, or into the sea, in 

 which there are not better fish than most people 

 imagine. 



I have experienced the truth of this in many 

 places, to the surprize and wonder of those who 

 lived near them. Such little unnoticed by- 



