AUGUST 189 



steelyard down to 2| Ib. ; the secret of his resistance 

 being revealed in the position of the hook, which was 

 fixed, not in his mouth, but in the dorsal fin. A 

 beautifully-shaped fish, but very dark, suitably to his 

 native environment, without a single spark of scarlet 

 on his skin. 



By this time the evening had turned cold and raw. 

 We left the Nameless Tarn with but a single specimen 

 of its inhabitants which, as the reader may have 

 murmured to himself before this, is but meagre material 

 for so windy a yarn ; but the enjoyment of that after- 

 noon bore no proportion to the weight of the basket. 



