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formances I award the palm over all others. As soon 

 as he felt himself pricked, contrary to the custom of 

 his brethren in a similar predicament, he rushed up 

 stream with the velocity of a bullet, through the throat 

 of surging water and into the next pool ; fortunately 

 the ground was accessible, and I was enabled to follow, 

 but for the life of me I could not, dared not, take a 

 pull on him. From the fish's movements I should 

 think he was swimming about two feet deep, and, 

 from the power and speed that he showed, appeared 

 totally to ignore any control. However, it's a straight 

 road that has no turn, and if I was led a dance in 

 the first instance, my turn was coming. After walking 

 two hundred yards and giving out nearly one hundred 

 yards of line, the drag told, and my friend thought it 

 better to change his course; down stream he came 

 with a rush, still without showing, but just as he got 

 to the smooth, oily-like water that preceded the break 

 of the rapid, he commenced springing with great 

 rapidity. Five or six times this ruse was repeated, 

 when off again my gallant foe went down stream with 

 as much energy and spirit as he had at first displayed. 

 Well, to make a long story short, to and fro we both 

 went, up and down, first one way and then another, 

 till the fun became hard work, and the exertion caused 

 globules of perspiration to stand on my face, and 

 worse than all, the confounded flies attacked me with 

 renewed vigour, availing themselves of my unprotected 

 situation. Again and again I took in line, as fre- 

 quently to be run out; but the exertion had told on 

 the foe, and at length I succeeded in getting him ulti- 

 mately gaffed. Truly he was a beauty twenty pounds 

 if an ounce. From what I have above narrated, some 



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