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mouth and that with which it was taken are pre- 

 served in a glass-case at his house in London. 



I may here mention that when Mr. Marshall 

 was once fishing with a friend of his at Uxbridge, 

 they each hooked a trout at the same time. His 

 friend's trout took a run and crossed Mr. Marshall's 

 line, and they became quite entangled. The two 

 fish weighed eight pounds, and were both landed 

 at once in the same landing net, a circumstance 

 which perhaps the oldest fisherman had never seen 

 before. On another occasion when he was fishing 

 with three flies, he hooked a trout on the leader, 

 another took the first bob-fly, and in playing them, 

 a third took the second bob-fly, and he landed all 

 three at once. 



Perhaps, however, the most curious occurrence 

 which this veteran in the art relates, is the follow- 

 ing, and no one who is acquainted with him will 

 doubt his accuracy. He was one morning angling 

 for trout, when he suddenly heard a great splash 

 in the water, and on looking round, saw it was a 

 hare which had jumped from the bank to swim 

 across the river. When she had got to the middle 

 of the stream, Mr. Marshall threw his trout-fly 

 over her, hooked her on the fur of her back, and 

 in the language of the angle, landed her " com- 

 fortably" Indeed the accuracy with which this 

 expert angler can throw a fly is quite extraordinary. 

 He was one day fishing near Carshalton, and in a 



