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sport and got a little over three dozen fine trout 

 from half a pound in weight to four and a half 

 pounds. After a time the trout gave up rising in 

 the pool where we were fishing, and as it was my 

 turn to fish, I climbed up a bit of steep rock where 

 sometimes a good cast could be made in a small 

 eddy at the foot. As my tackle was light and the 

 fish heavy and strong, we had been using one fly 

 only. I had no sooner dropped the fly in the eddy 

 than there was a swirl in the water and I was fast 

 in a good sized trout, which I knew to be at least 

 three pounds in weight. I played it from my 

 place on the cliff and while I was so doing thought 

 it very strange to find that my trout had suddenly 

 become much stronger than it was at first. I 

 commenced to think that I had been mistaken in 

 my first slight glimpse of the fish. So I called 

 out to Commander May that I had a whopper and 

 asked him to get the net. Quietly I brought the 

 trout in near the shore, but before the net could 

 be placed under it, the Commander shouted out, 

 to my great surprise, "Why, you have two 

 trout!" I said nothing, as I thought that he 

 might have seen another near it, which is some- 

 thing that occasionally happens, for quite often 

 one trout will follow another that is fast to the 

 end of a line. After a minute or so I got back 

 again to the shore the fish which had made an- 

 other short run in the meantime, and the Com- 

 mander netted two trout. He had not been de- 



