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In a book on " Angling," published at Copenhagen in 

 the middle of this century, we have some lines descriptive 

 of the salmon and salmon fishing. The following is a 

 translation of them, made by a friend : 



" We've often spoke with sanguine air 

 Of salmon runs near Carlstak fair ; 

 Where sport was truly worth the name, 

 In deeper pools, with larger game. 

 Such tales an angler's hopes rais'd high, 

 And straightway he had come to try ; 

 And well rewarded was his toil, 

 Nine salmon were his first day's spoil. 

 One gallant fish of extra weight 

 Lay beach' d beside the other eight, 

 Just thirty pounds, when weigh' d like gold, 

 The index of the steelyard told. 

 He gaff'd him ere he struck the ground, 

 Hence loss of blood would stand a pound ; 

 A finer fish was seldom seen 

 So thick and short so silv'ry clean 5 

 Small in the head, and bright the scale, 

 The brine-bred insect on his tail, 

 Bed in the gills, the muscles hard, 

 His measur'd length, a neat cloth yard 5 

 While round his shoulders, fair and free, 

 An inch-line mark stood thirty-three, 

 Close was his vent, scarce seen at all, 

 The girth above the tail so small, 

 That in the grasp when firmly set, 

 The thumb and fingers fairly met." 



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