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to our own book, we caught sight of him was it 

 possible ! winking again. 



A regular elephant of a fly was picked out a great 

 long, bushy, gaudily-ribbed affair ; for we had at last 

 found out that the river was " waxing " and that all 

 chance would soon be gone, and once more crossed to 

 the spit and began operations, not with much hope, 

 as the pool had already been fished five times. 



"What does this sudden change mean ? "Why does 

 Johnnie jump up like a Jack-in-the-box, upsetting 

 Angus, who had been leaning over, and sending him 

 head over heels down the bank 1 Why do we hurry 

 out of the water with a cheerful yell? There is 

 good cause for all these proceedings, for we are "in a 

 fish." Surely there can be few sensations known to 

 man which are able to send such a shock through his 

 system, and make his heart beat so fast, as those 

 which thrill through him when he strikes a fish in 

 that one moment when a grilse feels like a salmon, 

 and a salmon like a sack of coals. In an infini- 

 tesimal period of time in the twentieth part of a 

 second despair has been driven out and hope sent 

 bounding in. Hurrah ! and the feeling of intense 

 pleasure is in our case heightened by the wild hope, 

 for we saw the upset, that Angus has at last broken 

 his neck. But this is no time for making sure ; if 

 he has, he must wait patiently for a little, perhaps 

 for more than a little, till we can attend to him, for 

 we have that at the end of our rod which is likely to 



