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outside of this I stood and cast my fly, which 

 I had drawn only a few feet towards me when 

 a fellow sprang for it like a race-horse so 

 suddenly and unexpectedly that I did not 

 hook him. I gave him a rest, then tried 

 again and again, but could not start him, so I 

 concluded I must have pricked him, yet I con- 

 tinued changing flies and fishing, encouraged 

 only hy the fact that I know he was in the pool. 

 Perhaps he changed his position to some other 

 part of the pool, as they often do, when he made 

 that rush. There was a rock directly below me : 

 he might be lying at the head of it ; so I moved 

 my fly above it, working the line across the 

 stream, when out he came fiercely as at first, 

 but no longer free I had him. Then there 

 was a spree. The scamp rushed out into the 

 stream and down the stream, made a jump, 

 then towards the pool and into an eddy, leav- 

 ing the line slack. I reeled up as fast as 

 possible, but a little too fast, for, after deve- 

 lopments for he took a second race off into 

 the stream my line bringing up all standing, 

 and budge it I could not on the reel. The 

 salmon felt the sudden check, gave a leap, 

 parted my cast, and bade me good-bye, 



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