46 SALMON I A. [SECOND DAY. 



HAL. Take care. He lias turned you, and you 

 have suffered him to run out your line, and he is gone 

 into the weeds under the willow : let him fall down 

 stream. 



POIET. I cannot get him out. 



HAL. Then wind up. I fear he is lost, yet we 

 will try to recover him by taking the boat up. The 

 line is loose; he has left the link entangled in the 

 weeds, and carried your fly with him. He must have 

 been a large fish, or he could not have disentangled 

 himself from so strong a gut. Try again, there are 

 fish now rising above and below ; where the water is 

 in motion, opposite that willow, there are two fish 

 rising. 



POIET. I have one of them. 



HAL. Now you are doing well. Down with the 

 boat, and drag your fish downwards. Continue to do 

 so, as there are weeds all round you. You can 

 master him now; keep him high, and he is your own. 

 Put the net under him, and bring him into the boat ; 

 he is a well-fed fish, but not of the proper size for a 

 victim, about 2 Ibs. Now, Physicus, try your fortune 

 with the fish above, that rises so merrily still. You 

 have him ! Now use him as Poietes did the last. 

 Very well ; I see he is a large fish, take your time. 

 He is landed; a fish nearly of 3 Ibs., and in excellent 

 season. 



