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angrily, u a sole, sir ! a sole ! a sawmon 

 peel n s worth twenty soles ! " 



J. I hope some day to capture a sal- 

 mon ; I hear it is a mettlesome fish, and 

 affords fine sport. 



S. Truly, and there are some who say 

 that the capture of a salmon will give you 

 a distaste for trout-fishing, or " trouting," 

 as the Scotch term it ; but, though a noble 

 sport, it is, after all, a coarser kind of 

 angling. Still, the rush of a salmon, when 

 you have struck him, is tremendous. To 

 hear the whirr of your reel, as he dashes 

 up stream, running out fifty yards of your 

 line, and then throwing repeated summersets, 

 nearly as high as your head, would excite 

 the most stolid angler that ever cast a fly. 



J. I have no doubt of the sport exciting 

 me. You must have perceived that the 

 hooking of a small trout excites me so 

 much that I am in danger of losing him 

 by my precipitancy. 



