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that lie nearer to civilisation, I have reason to believe that 

 brook trout can there be caught upwards of ten pounds in 

 weight 



Moving down to the run, I recommenced, and rose a 

 very large fish the second cast ; but our acquaintance got 

 no further, for all my blandishments were futile to induce 

 him again to move. A little lower down I was more suc- 

 cessful, for I struck a regular Trojan, whose memory still 

 lives, and to whose performances I award the palm over all 

 others. As soon as he felt himself pricked, contrary to 

 the custom of his brethren in a similar predicament, he 

 rushed up stream with the velocity of a bullet, through the 

 throat of surging water and into the next pool ; fortunately 

 the ground was accessible, and I was enabled to follow, but 

 for the life of me I could not, dared not, take a pull on 

 him. From the fish's movements I should think he was 

 swimming about two feet deep, and, from the power and 

 speed that he showed, appeared totally to ignore any 

 control. However, it's a straight road that has no turn, 

 and if I was led a dance in the first instance, my turn was 

 coming. After walking two hundred yards and giving out 

 nearly one hundred yards of line, the drag told, and my 

 friend thought it better to change his course ; down stream 

 he came with a rush, still without showing, but just as he 

 got to the smooth, oily-like water that preceded the break 

 of the rapid, he commenced springing with great rapidity. 

 Five or six times this ruse was repeated, when off again 

 my gallant foe went down stream with as much energy and 

 spirit as he had at first displayed. Well, to make a long 

 story short, to and fro we both went, up and down, first 



