54 SPRING-TIDE. 



not recover your hooks in the same way. 

 This gentleman was fishing for trout with 

 a minnow, when, either from the inadvert- 

 ence of which you were guilty, or some 

 fault of his tackle, it was carried away 

 hy a lusty trout. Having refitted with a 

 fly, he proceeded down the stream, and 

 met with good sport. Returning hy the 

 pool where he had lost his tackle, he re- 

 solved to have another venture, and had 

 scarcely made his cast, when he had the 

 good fortune to hook a thumping fish. 

 He was greatly surprised, however, to find 

 that his acquaintance, after a few plunges, 

 came to the surface of the water, reeling 

 and dead-beaten. Having landed him, as- 

 tonishment succeeded to surprise, when he 

 discovered that, instead of hooking the 

 fish, he had caught the dissevered tackle 

 hanging from its mouth. During his ab- 

 sence the trout had evidently become 

 exhausted by endeavours to free himself 



