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" Sure then it's his honour would have 

 hooked him iligant, av he'd had the rod in 

 his hand," said Tommy. 



" But it happened to he in yours," said 

 the Captain ; " we hook our own fish at 

 Belleek, and land them too. You heard 

 of the Squire's fish yesterday ? " 



"We have heard of nothing else," said 

 the Barrister, "and M c Aulay has written 

 an ode on it." 



u Yes, and we can catch them on bright 

 days too, which is more than I observe you 

 have done to-day. Here's a fine fellow, I 

 see, that the Parson has been crimping, and 

 I believe I did catch a schoolmaster at Rose 

 Isle this morning. He rattled me over every 

 rock in the rapid, and at last took heart of 

 grace and went over the fall gallantly." 



" And you lost him ?" said the Barrister, 

 with some satisfaction. 



" Lost him ! not a bit of it ; we do not 

 lose our fish at Belleek. The line was pre- 

 cious near the side rock, to be sure, but Pat 

 cleverly held out the gaff for it to run over, 

 till I got up and shortened him in, and then 

 gaffed him out of the great boiling turnhole 

 below." 



