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Moving down to the run, I recommenced, and 

 rose a very large fish the second cast ; but our ac- 

 quaintance got no further, for all my blandishments 

 were futile to induce him again to move. A little 

 lower down I was more successful, for I struck a 

 regular Trojan, whose memory still lives, and to whose 

 performances I award the palm over all others. As 

 soon as he felt himself pricked, contrary to the custom 

 of his brethren in a similar predicament, he rushed up 

 stream with the velocity of a bullet, through the throat 

 of surging water and into the next pool ; fortunately 

 the ground was accessible, and I was enabled to follow, 

 but for the life of me I could not, dared not, take a pull 

 on him. From the fish's movements I should think 

 he was swimming about two feet deep, and, from the 

 power and speed that he showed, appeared totally to 

 ignore any control. However, it's a straight road that 

 has no turn, and if I was led a dance in the first 

 instance, my turn was coming. After walking two 

 hundred yards and giving out nearly one hundred yards 

 of line, the drag told, and my friend thought it better to 

 change his course ; down stream he came with a rush, 

 still without showing, but just as he got to the smooth, 

 oily-like water that preceded the break of the rapid, 

 he commenced springing with great rapidity. Five or 

 six times this ruse was repeated, when off again my 



