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generally is more difficult to deceive than trout 

 in the same river. 



Never wishing to quote an author, or bor- 

 row from him without acknowledgment, we 

 will remind the reader, that most of the 

 remarks comprised in the preceding pages are 

 extracted from various parts of Sir H. Davy's 

 Salmonia. We will now lay before the reader 

 some curious observations communicated to 

 Mr. Jesse, by a gentleman residing on the 

 banks of the Teme. The said gentleman 

 communicates them in a tone of the most 

 confident authority, and as some of them are 

 in direct variance with the opinions of Sir 

 H. Davy and Mr. Yarrell, and as others run 

 diametrically counter to our notions of gray- 

 ling-fishing, we will, putting them into the 

 smallest possible space, write them down, to 

 the end that both sides of the question may 

 be fairly heard. The gentleman in question, 

 says, "Any person who has ever fished in a 

 grayling river, will remember that there are 

 three very distinct sizes of fish : the pink, 

 so called, I imagine, from its not much 

 exceeding the minnow in size ; the shett, or 

 shote, which average about five to the pound ; 

 and the half-pound fish, which then takes the 

 name of ' grayling' Now, as I have myself 

 constantly caught all these several kinds on 



