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person following him about, with what must have 

 appeared to him a long whip, and feeling something 

 pulling at his mouth, approached his masters, trem- 

 bling all over ; as soon as the line was slackened, the 

 fly, which had merely stuck in the lip, dropped out, 

 and no injury was done to either rod, line, or dog. 



About Soutbgate there are many rivulets; one 

 near East Barnet, called Salmon Brook ! Why, I 

 know not, as that fish could never have visited it. 



About six miles and a half on the Edgware Road, 

 at a place called the Hyde, is a piece of water, at the 

 "Welsh Harp, where, I have been told, there is very 

 good pond angling, by paying a moderate sum. 



I was once induced, a very few years ago, to go 

 by railway to Stratford, and walk thence to a hamlet 

 called Philihrooky near two miles to the left from the 

 station, towards Leyton, where, in a large pond, 

 called Rockholts Point, I was informed I should find 

 plenty of fish ; but the person who obtained the per- 

 mission as a favour, it being private property, could 

 not tell me of what species they were. I therefore 

 burthened myself with a long rod, artificial minnows, 

 gudgeons, worms, and paste, and went to the water, 

 which was, I think, nearly or quite a furlong and a 

 half, or more, long — probably forty yards wide, about 

 two feet deep, free of weeds, and so clear that I 

 could see all over it — but no fish of any kind appeared. 



