34 SALMON1A. [SECOND DAY. 



HAL Unluckily, it is a dace. 



PHYS. I have now a larger fish, which has pulled 

 my line out. 



HAL Give him time. That is a good trout. Now 

 wind up ; he is tired, and your own. I will land him. 

 He is a fish to keep, being above 2 Ibs. 



PHYS. I am well pleased. 



HAL. There are many larger trouts here : go on 

 fishing, and you will hook some of them. And when 

 you are tired of this rapid, you will find another a 

 quarter of a mile below. And continue to fish with a 

 short line, and drop your fly, or let it be carried by 

 '' the wind on the water, as lightly as possible. Well, 

 Poietes, what success ? 



POIET. I have been fishing in the stream above ; 

 but the flies are so abundant, that the large fish will 

 not take my artificial fly, and I have caught only 

 three fish, all of which the fisherman has thrown into 

 the water, though I am sure one of them was more 

 than 2 Ibs. 



HAL. You may trust his knowledge : with a new 

 angler, our keeper would be apt rather to favour the 

 fisherman than the fish. But we will have all fish 

 you wish to be killed, and above 2 Ibs., put into the 

 well f the boat, where they can be examined, and, if 

 you desire, weighed and measured, and such kept as are 

 worth keeping. No good angler should kill a fish, if 



