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in exciting sport, as well as being filthy and soiling 

 to all you come in contact with, making your approach 

 most objectionable to your companions, from the offen- 

 siveness of the smell. If some of our numerous inge- 

 nious chemists would set their brains to work and 

 discover a practical means of repulsion of these vam- 

 pires, they would earn the goodwill of all the followers 

 of the gentle craft. 



The fifth or sixth throw rose and hooked a fine fish, 

 which made me uncommonly busy ; he was remarkably 

 lively, and kept me on the move the first ten minutes. 

 I scarcely ever remember to have seen a salmon break 

 water so frequently ; after the first burst, with about 

 sixty yards out, he showed himself six or seven times, 

 springing on each occasion several feet clear of the 

 surface. However, these exertions told upon my foe, 

 for when I turned him he submitted to be guided till 

 all surplus line was in. Through a stumble which I 

 made on passing over the rocks, I accidentally checked 

 him more abruptly than Mr. Salmon thought was 

 courteous, for off again he went with the velocity of a 

 steam-engine ; however, my tackle was strong and 

 hook well planted, and soon, a second time, I had him 

 under control, and by exercising a little politeness of 

 the give-and-take order, I brought him into shallow 

 water. Jock, my faithful attendant, was by, and with 



