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pleased with the issue as I know that when the line 

 is all drawn out by a salmon which you cannot 

 follow the break that comes is at the knot that 

 fastens the line to the winch. The boatmen seemed 

 relieved, but I fancy it was not so much by the 

 saving of the line as at the severance of all con- 

 nection with the beast they had talked in Irish at 

 from between set teeth. 



Time slips by unheeded when we are employed, 

 be it at sport or work : so busy had we been kept 

 by fortune good and bad that Harry's watch quite 

 startled us and we had to turn for home before the 

 afternoon seemed half way through. Pat was 

 waiting our return and helped to place the fish 

 upon the rocks and, when he saw them all laid out, 

 he said : " It's Mr Sheridan himself and the gintle- 

 men who would be coming fishing in the same boat 

 that should be seeing them." Brian hearing this 

 looked to Lavelle, who nodded back, and then he 

 said : " Will yer honours take them ? " " Thank you 

 both, no!" I answered. "We shall have a picture 

 of them to remind us of the sport you have given 



us." 



