THE mayor's tictoky. 227 



day it ^vil.s ftjiind that I was beaten in the count by one 

 trout. My friend cauglit one and saved him ; and I had a 

 controversy witli a single trout, he on one side of a log and 

 I on the other, in which he came off and got off best. That 

 fish lamented a lacerated mouth, and I a quarter-of-a- 

 pound trout. 



