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ask. M' yes, I cannot tell a lie. I didn't find it 

 still on. It broke loose ! But it weighed just two 

 pounds seven ounces ', all tJie same. I am positive 

 of that. And this is how I know : 



Two months later I was fishing the dam of a 

 flax-mill lower down the same river. It was 

 evening ; and as the soft -winged moths fluttered 

 alongside my own artificial white miller, I "rose" 

 a fish and hooked him. Moreover, I landed him ; 

 and in his mouth were the remains of my identical 

 Royal Coachman fly, lost at the upper dam in the 

 early season. No one makes this fly just as I do. 

 This fish weighed two pounds seven ounces exactly, 

 that is why I am positive of the weight of the 

 lost one, you see ! 



