88 WHEN WATERS ARE Low 



for life, and then floated towards me, 

 the wondrous colours of his sides glis- 

 tening in the sun. 



" Hark! to the music of the reel ; 

 'Tis welcome, it is glorious : 

 It wanders through the winding wheel, 

 Returning and victorious. " 



He was indeed a "lusty trout," and 

 that he had made so brave a fight for 

 life, and had at last been caught by fair 

 means rather than by foul, made the 

 heart of the angler glad. 



