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fishing. Shortly after the captain's guide 

 came, when they dropped their boat down 

 against F.'s, and he began fishing also, throw- 

 ing his line wherever F. did. Eight here permit 

 me to say that if the officer's boat had been 

 occupying the pool when F. went down the 

 shore to his boat, it would have been his by 

 occupation. As he was not, however, his 

 absence cancelled any prior claim, even had 

 he been in possession a week before vacating 

 it. The moment he moved outside the limits 

 of the pool, that moment he forfeited his 

 claim. My readers, experienced fishermen, I 

 am positive, will endorse the view as being the 

 recognized law among anglers. It becomes 

 necessary here, for explicitness, to introduce 

 some other characters in the shape of " order- 

 lies " private soldiers in this case the 

 officers' servants, mainly employed in looking 

 after their horses. The other men, the major 

 and captain, with these servants, were at the 

 hotel over night, and at this particular stage 

 in the morning's fun, the last three appeared 

 on the bank, the latter moving down to the 

 shore nearest the boats. 



That morning I was early at the mill-side, 



