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after this to tell me that he had caught a 

 fine twelve-pounder salmon that morning." 



" Hillo, Parson !" shouted the Barrister 

 from as far as he could hail ; u I beat you at 

 Cos na Wonna after all, my boy! When 

 you gave it up I just went back to it and 

 caught your fish for you, and a fine heavy 

 fellow he was."* 



u Was it you or Tommy that caught 

 him?" said the Captain. 



"Well, I killed him and landed him at 

 any rate, and a gallant fight we had of it ; 

 he ran me down as hard as he could lick, 

 every bit of the way to Kathleen's Fall. I 

 thought he must have gone down it, but I 

 got a pull upon him and turned him, and 

 Tommy here gaffed him, I must say very 

 cleverly, at the head of the rapid." 



" Very good," said the Captain ; " but 

 who hooked him?" 



* This happens frequently after floods, when the 

 fish are moving. A salmon arriving upon new ground 

 will rise readily at anything, though the fish that have 

 been there for some days will not look at a fly. In 

 the early season this is so common that the third, 

 fourth, fifth, or sixth, time of fishing a throw is nearly 

 as likely to yield a fish as the first. 



