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remarked. Beino- challena;ed to do so, I 

 borrowed a rod, and, removing- the top, tied 

 a hook about two and a half inches long to 

 the end of the next joint. I am not an 

 angler, but, schoolboy recollections helping 

 me, at the second attempt I neatly "snatched " 

 the fish, and held him up, flapping, in triumph. 

 Oh, horror ! it was not a trout at all, but — 

 a salmon pink ! 



''Well, for a county magistrate I think 



that's a record," quoth the late Colonel , 



himself the Chairman of a Bench, when the 

 laughter occasioned by my exploit had 

 somewhat subsided. ''Let's see how it 

 would work out on a charge-sheet : — 



"(1) Taking salmon in close time (Sunday). 



"(2) Taking salmon pink. 



" (3) Taking salmon without a licence. 



" (4) Taking salmon with an illegal engine. 



