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his Irish setters and grand specimens they 

 were ; but I'm off the line, and must hark 

 back to the fishing. We burnt the midnight 

 oil with a vengeance that night, and on the 

 following day devoted what little energy was 

 left us to Lough Dan, but we were handi- 

 capped from the start by want of a breeze to 

 put a curl on the water. All the morning 

 the surface of the lough was like a mill-pond, 

 but in the afternoon a slight, variable breeze 

 got up, and during a catspaw the " Laird " 

 hooked a really nice fish, but lost him owing 

 to its making a sudden rush under the boat 

 before he could stop it. Out of the three 

 dozen and a half we caught, at least two and 

 a half dozen were killed towards evening, 

 when the glint of the sun was off the water 

 and a nice ripple stirred the lough. Most 

 of the fish were taken on hare's flax and 

 yellow, and yellow bodied grouse hackle 

 flies. 



