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and violent struggle the hold broke and I lost him, The 

 mode of fishing attributed by Sir Humphry Davy to the 

 Galvvay fishermen* must be as unprofitable as unartistlike. If 

 ever it could avail, we should have succeeded to-day in 

 Pullgarrow. 



Meanwhile the breeze gradually died away, or came in gusts 

 from the south ; the sky in the same quarter grew thick and 

 misty ; large drops fell, and in a short time the rain came 

 down in torrents. The reason why the salmon had declined 

 our flies was now disclosed ; although we had not foreseen the 

 coming change, the fish had evidently expected it. Wearied 

 and drenched, we returned to our shooting quarters. But we 

 speedily forgot our fatigue and disappointment. Antony's 

 report of the health of his canine patient was satisfactory. 

 The animal's stomach had been disordered, and the otter- 

 hunter's remedies were promptly administered, and successful. 

 My cousin had a dread of madness breaking out in his kennel ; 

 and from his melancholy experience of the fearful consequences 

 of neglect, I do not marvel that on the first symptom of loss 

 of appetite or abated spirits, he forthwith causes the suspected 

 dog to be removed, and places him under a strict surveillance. 



Our conversation after dinner naturally turned upon the 

 indisposition of the setter. " You may think, my dear 

 Frank," said my cousin, " that I carry my apprehensions of 

 the slightest illness in my dogs to a ridiculous and unneces- 

 sary length ; but when I tell you that I have witnessed the 

 fatal course of hydrophobia, in the human as well as the brute 

 victim, you may then conceive the horror I feel when any 

 thing recalls to my memory this hopeless malady. 



" During my first season at the Dublin University, I was 

 invited to pass a short vacation with a relative of my mother. 

 He lived in the south of Ireland, in an ancient family mansion- 



* " In the river at Galway, in Ireland, I have seen above the bridge 

 some hundreds of salmon lying in rapid streams, and from five to ten 

 fishermen tempting them with every variety of fly, but in vain. After a 

 fish has been thrown over a few times, and risen once or twice and 

 refused the fly, he rarely ever took any notice of it at that place." 



" When the water is low and clear in this river, the Galway fishermen 

 resort to the practice of fishing with a naked hook, endeavouring to 

 entangle it in the body of the fish; a most unartistlike practice." 

 Salmonia. 



