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escape ; she proceeded to the grave, beside 

 which she knelt, and with clasped hands 

 called upon her lost lover to come and fetch 

 her as he had promised ; then suddenly, 

 before the friends who had followed could 

 prevent her, she rushed to the highest point 

 of the Glen, and without an instant's 

 hesitation threw herself headlong into the 

 deep pool below. The Irish are so full of 

 romance and so rich in sentiment that go 

 where you will in Ireland legends of this sort 

 abound, and are most thoroughly believed in. 

 But to return to our fishing. 



The best flies for the Wicklow rivers are : 

 (i) a blue-bodied fly with black hackle and 

 the web of a starling's wing over all for 

 wing ; (2) a grouse hackle tied over either 

 an orange or light yellow body ; (3) a hare's 

 flax body, tied as rough as possible with gold 

 tinsel or yellow silk tip ; (4) a bright red 

 hackle, tied over yellow or purple body, 



