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sailing down the stream/ and seen the great 

 1 splutter ' of trout making frantic saltations 

 ' playing,' some call it (poor play for them) ! 

 How often do we fix our eye upon, a single 

 ' March brown ' until he passes into the swirl 

 where a big trout lies, eager to feed, and see 

 him missed, and then see that same trout 

 miss five or six others in succession ! Play ! 

 How often do we watch the same fly missed 

 by three, four, or more trout in succession ! 

 Are they all playing? No; but they are 

 ' rising short.' 



We do not uphold that the ' short rising ' 

 of salmon can be explained in an absolutely 

 similar way to that of trout, but we feel 

 very sure there are close affinities between 

 the two sets of phenomena. We have, how- 

 ever, always kept notes in our Salmon 

 Registers of the time of day when we have 

 killed or risen, pricked, lightly hooked, and 

 lost salmon and grilse, and such can hardly 

 fail to prove educative ; but as we are really 

 writing of trout-fishing we pass on here, 

 though we may refer to this again. 



Now, if to the above natural adverse circum- 

 stances be added the unnatural jerking of 



