86 AN ANGLER'S LINES. 



can I explain my. subsequent escape from 

 a foul, for, even in daylight, the spot was 

 an awkward one in which to venture a hook, 

 being a halting-place for all the flotsam and 

 jetsam brought down by both streams. At 

 last the fish, an active resister no longer, came 

 under the top of the rod. Lying- full length 

 on the ground, I reached down with the net, 

 and the brook was the poorer by a nice trout 

 of i Ib. 



