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diately below his toes, he turned, clutched the 

 ladder, and ascended pale and shaking, and at the 

 top of it he commenced to crawl on hands and 

 knees up the steep bank. Even when at the top 

 and on level ground he still continued to crawl for 

 such a distance that I wondered if it could be his 

 intention to get to the hotel that way. 



There is room for those who have heads not so 

 easily affected, and were this the only difficulty 

 connected with the spot all would be easy to most 

 of us. 



You cannot cast from a winch from here, so you 

 must perforce adopt my, or some other, easy-going- 

 out method. Cast straight across or a little up, 

 and then use the stream to aid you to cover the 

 whole, or as much as you can, of the water. There 

 are fish within a few yards of you that is, minus 

 the thirty feet drop so you may get him with a 

 very poor cast. When you have him play him as 

 much as you can from where you stand. He will 

 rush for the falls, but that is so far up that you 

 should be able to turn him. Keep the point of 

 your rod in such a position that the stream on the 

 line may tend to bring his head and body sideways, 

 as he is far more likely to turn then than when the 

 trace is directly over his back urging him on. This 

 plan will bring him back to the deep water near 

 you. Hold hard on him, remembering that your 

 rod will not break your line while held at any sort 

 of elevation. His last effort will be to go down 



