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content to admit its frequent interfer- 

 ence with sport and to chronicle cases 

 of exceptional success which they have 

 had in it. Among these are the fol- 

 lowing : 



" In May 1891 I started one day with Exceptional 

 my brother to fish the lower end of my cases of , 



* * unexpected 



water. The Slaney was low and very success. 

 clear, and the day about the very worst I 

 ever saw for fishing, with a steel-blue sky, 

 blazing sun, and cold, boisterous E. wind. 

 We got down to the bottom pool, a long, 

 dead stretch of water, full of fish and 

 well ruffled with the wind ; but, thinking 

 it a hopeless day, we sat on the bank for 

 some time in a most despondent mood. 

 At last I determined to fish the pool, no 

 easy task, as the wind was blowing dead 

 across in my face. About my third cast 

 I rose a fish, and, after a rest, cast over 

 him again, got hold of him, and killed 

 him. My brother then started fishing, 

 and in three hours we killed six fish in 

 about half a mile of water, and we must 

 have risen about twenty. A more hope- 



