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lost the first day. G. tried it carefully down, but 

 just before finishing got his bait stuck on a stone 

 deep in the water. Something had to go, and 

 as the stone declined to move, it was the gut : 

 the good brown minnow was left behind. G. 

 reeled up and landed, and prepared to take his rod 

 down. 



" You have another minnow 1 " said the Admiral. 



" Yes ; but it's not worth while trying it." 



But the indefatigable Admiral got it out. 



"There's always," he said, slowly, "another huchen 

 in that pool ; " and he was right for in three 

 minutes the blue minnow was inside him (the fish). 

 He was a big one. He ran madly out into the 

 middle of the river, and set out for Tolz as hard as 

 he could go. G. had to scramble up an awkward 

 bank, for the water grew too deep to follow in ; but 

 the Iniclien was still on. He raced along the firm 

 ground, and then had to jump into the stream again, 

 to avoid some trees ; but still the huchen was on. 

 He got out fifty yards of line, however, whilst he 

 had a chance ; and as the powerful current aided his 

 own energetic exertions, it was not easy to get a pull 

 on him. A long sandy spit let the fisherman gain a 

 little ; and then, just as the latter made up his mind 

 that it would be necessary to give the fish the butt at 

 the end of the spit, owing to the wooded banks which 

 followed, the fish also made up his mind and broke 

 his hold. 



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