18 THE SEWIN. 



Behoves you then to ply your finest art. 

 Long time he following, cautious scans the fly, 

 And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft 

 The dimpled water checks his jealous fear : 

 At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun 

 Passes a cloud : he desperate takes the death 

 With sullen plunge ; at once he darts along, 

 Deep struck, and runs out all the lengthen'd line, 

 Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, 

 The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode ; 

 And flies aloft and flounces round the pool, 

 Indignant of the guile. With yielding hand 

 That feels him still, yet to his furious course 

 Gives way, you, now retiring, following now, 

 Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage ; 

 Till floating hard upon his breathless side, 

 And to his fate abandoned, to the shore 

 You gaily drag your unresisting prize. 



THE SEWIN. (SALMO CAMBRICUS.) 

 White Trout in Ireland. 



The Sewin differs from the common salmon in 

 various particulars, that will not fail to strike the 

 eye on comparing the two fishes. The general 

 contour of the whole fish is slightly dissimilar ; the 

 head is shorter and more sloping, and the lower jaw 

 extends rather beyond the upper one, the precise 

 contrary of which is observable in the salmon. The 

 back is of a pale greyish colour, glossed with blue, 

 and by no means so dark as in the former ; this 

 greyish colour prevails under the scales, from the 



