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fishing with the lath that poaching implement 

 she addressed herself to them for informa- 

 tion asking " If they had seen a gentleman 

 angling, and could direct her to him." Oh I 

 they replied, "your master is yonder, hid by 

 that big rock." And she was soon by my side, 

 laughing, and making me smile at this strange 

 mistake, and I may surely say, no common 

 compliment. See, the water is beginning to 

 move ; a breeze is springing up, and let us be 

 moving. Though I have little hope of much 

 success, we will try ; you take one side of the 

 tarn, I will follow the other. I would recom- 

 mend you to try brown flies, or woodcock's 

 speckled wing, with hare's ear dubbing ; brown 

 flies, some speckled, some light brown, abound 

 amongst the heather and bracken. 



AMICUS. We have soon made the circuit of 

 this little tarn* What have you done ? I have 

 taken one trout only, an ill-fed one, of about 

 half a pound, the only fish I rose. 



PISCATOR. I have not had a rise ; nor have I, 

 seen a fish rise. The wind is so light and 

 unsteady, that it is not worth our while to stop. 

 We will descend, if you please, to Easedale 

 Tarn, and try it. There perhaps we may be 



