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fish inside the seine. In a very short time the men 

 hauhng on the shore felt sufficient resistance to 

 assume then that the draught would be a good one, 

 and in a short time, as the net was drawn upon 

 the shallows, we could perceive those movements 

 which betoken the presence of the fish. In a few 

 minutes, the net was drawn up, and we extracted 

 from its meshes fourteen salmon of various sizes 

 (the weight varying from five-and-twenty to forty 

 pounds), forty-five salmon-trout, with perch, carp, 

 and eels. All that were adjudged to be unsaleable 

 were thrown back into the water, and the remainder 

 Avere packed up with fresh weed in baskets and 

 carried to the fishery, where they were stored in a 

 cool cellar which had been excavated in the rock. 

 The net was then cast again, and the operation 

 repeated four times in the course of the day, and 

 when night came, my friend, instead of sixty salmon, 

 had sixty-seven to send to his correspondents. A 

 three-horsed waggon conveyed these the same night 

 to Stony Point, where the}'' would meet the steamer 

 to take them to New York and elsewhere. That 

 evening, as we supped gaily in the pretty little 

 parlour of Mead's shooting-box, he promised me 

 some good sport on the morrow after woodcock, and 

 sure enough we bagged nine-and-twenty, with the 

 aid of two fine pointers. That evening we had a 

 torch-light fishing for salmon. 



" Take "ood care," cried Mead to the harpooner. 



