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luck had been broken by changing our 

 grounds. 



The next morning it was raining heavily, 

 and continued all the forenoon, raising the 

 water some, while it became very thick, so 

 much so that the fish would not or could not 

 see the fly in the afternoon, and I found none 

 that day. S., however, fared better, and 

 was into a queer freak with a salmon on 

 Murray's Brook, where he had gone for trout. 

 This brook is a large stream, famous in those 

 days and since for its trout-pools, extending 

 some distance into the forest, and emptying 

 into the Medway just at the head of Little 

 Salmon. Finding no fish on the main river, 

 he went up this brook for trout. When he 

 had taken fourteen, up came a salmon, and he 

 hooked him, but had no hope of saving him 

 with his trout-gear, as the stream was quite 

 narrow, the bushes growing out over it. How- 

 ever, the fish sailed about for a while, jump- 

 ing three times, but S. held him very loosely, 

 so he had him still when he swam close to 

 the banks and amongst the bushes, of course 

 taking the line with him. Here he stopped. 

 Now what was to be done ? 



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