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to their girth being nearly in a ratio of 20 : 9 

 and 20:13. I am going; good sport to 

 you. 



EVENING. 



HAL. I am sure I may congratulate you 

 on you sport, for I see on the bank a fine 

 salmon, three grauls or grilses, and three large 

 sea trout. 



ORN. You have not seen all, for we have 

 crimped two fish one a large salmon, and 

 the other a trout almost a yard long, and both 

 in excellent season. We have had great sport, 

 and sport even of a kind which you will not 

 guess at; for when the tide was fallen, the 

 fish ceased to rise at the fly, and I thought of 

 trying them with a bait ; so we sent for our 

 swivel tackle, and put par or samlet on our 

 hooks, as we bait for pike cutting off one 

 ventral fin on one side, and one pectoral fin 

 on the other ; and making the par spin in the 

 most rapid streams, we had several runs from 

 fish, and it was in this way that Poietes 

 caught this large sea trout,, which gave ex- 

 cellent sport. 



HAL. This kind of fishing is not un- 



