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voices subsided, my attention was absorbed 

 by the narrative of one of the party, as 

 sensational as amusing, in which he was the 

 principal performer. 



It seemed, that the weather and water 

 being most favourable, he sallied out with his 

 salmon-rod one likely day in August in hopes 

 of rising a fish or two. He, like the rest of 

 us, has a fondness for some few pools and 

 streams in preference to any of the others. 

 The stream under the Scar, usually called 

 the "Cliff-stream," a great favourite with all 

 of us, I believe he first threw off in. He 

 tried two or three flies, some of the prettiest 

 in his book, all to no purpose; though no 

 one could handle a rod better, or cast a 

 lighter line. Salmo refused to stir ! He then 

 went on lower down, till he came to the 

 second pile of stones, off which are a few 

 yards of broken water, underneath which, in 

 the swirl near the bank, when the water is 

 high, you would look for a white gleam, 



