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. FISHER In this I must yield you the palm. 

 I never caught one real yellow-finned "burn trout 

 weighing five pounds in my life. I once, however, 

 saw one caught with a minnow, in the Eden, near 

 Salkeld, which was twenty- two inches long, and 

 weighed five pounds and a quarter; and I knew 

 a person who took one in the Tweed, with a net, 

 which weighed nearly seven pounds. The trout, in 

 such streams in the northern counties as I am ac- 

 quainted with, are not so large as those caught in 

 the trout-streams within thirty miles of London. 

 But, to make amends, the fly-fisher there counts his 

 take by the dozen, while here he is fortunate who 

 in a day catches three ""brace." I have frequently 

 killed four dozen in a morning, "between daylight 

 and nine o'clock, and as many in the evening, be- 

 tween four and ten. During this last season, on 

 Monday, 21st July, after a heavy rain on the preceding 

 Saturday, a friend of mine caught thirteen dozen, 

 "between five in the morning and three in the after- 

 noon. He had on three flies, which he never 

 changed during the whole, replacing those which he 

 lost with others of the same kind. . For his stretcher 

 he had a grouse-hackle; for the middle dropper, a 

 fly with a brown body of bear's fur, and "blea," or 

 leaden coloured wings ; and for his highest dropper, 

 a red hackle. 



TWEDDELL. This is something like fishing; 

 but almost any one, man or boy, who has the use of 

 his arms, and can throw five yards of Jine into the 



