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HAL. Better after a flood from rain ; for 

 this brings the fish up, who know when rain 

 is coming, and likewise brings down food and 

 makes the fish feed. But when the water is 

 raised by a strong wind, the fish never run, as 

 they are sure to find no increase in the spring 

 heads, which are their objects in running. 



POIET. You give the fish credit for great 

 sagacity. 



HAL. Call it instinct rather ; for if they 

 reasoned, they would run with every large 

 water, whether from wind or rain. What 

 the feeling or power is, which makes them 

 travel with rain, I will not pretend to define. 

 But now for our sport. 



POIET. The fish are beginning to rise ; 

 I have seen two here already, and there is a 

 third, and a fourth scarcely a quarter of a 

 minute elapses without a fish rising in some 

 parts of the pool. 



HAL. As the day is dark, I shall use a 



bright and rather a large fly, with jay's hackle, 



kingfisher's feather under the wing, and 



golden pheasant's tail, and wing of mixed 



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