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rapid streams, can be managed in most of the Canadian 

 streams by one man ; and, what is a great advantage, two of 



to my memory at this moment, which I shall give you as nearly as possible 

 in his own words. 



" You've heerd of ould Grub, surr, ould Grub the Quaker from Clonmel. 

 Well, about this time two years he came here with his young wife ; it 

 was on the weddin tour they wor. Well, I threwn meself in his way 

 the day after he came, and touched me hat to the ould negur, and 

 asked him in her hearin, wouldn't he like to give the young lady the air on 

 the wather ? but he passed on as stiff as bogwood, without even noticing 

 me. ' Well, never mind ould boy,' says I, 'I'll hook you yet ; ' and so 

 I kept my eye on him for a couple of days, till I seen they were tired of all 

 the walks from Hermitage to the World's End, and from the Rock Tower to 

 the holy well at Doonas, and beginnin, I think, to be tired too of the bacon 

 and eggs, with sometimes an ould chicken, which was all the dinner 

 Catty Murphy, the cretur, could give them ; when one fine evenin, as they 

 wor coming out of the door, looking up and down and uncertain which way 

 to go, I dropped across them and said, ' Wouldn't your honor like to come 

 out on the river and catch some trout for your honor's tay ? ' With that 

 the ould fellow looked up into the bright eyes of as beautiful a quaker girl 

 as ever I seen in this world, and says, ' Hannah, would' st thou like to go ? ' 

 to which she answered by a smile like the sun on the wather : Oh but her 

 lips and her eyes sparkled, and her teeth were white as the snow, and her 

 lips as red as cherries. Well, Dinny Considine got the rod, and we got the 

 darlin cretur and the ould boy into the cot, and pushed out into the panthry, 

 and as the fry wor running we caught a few ; when Dinny gives me the 

 wink and says, ' It'll take two of us to hould the cot in the stream ; ' so I hands 

 the rod to the old boy, and he began throwin in and pullin out two or three 

 of the little creturs at a time, and warmed up to it like a red-haired girl at 

 a dance, till we had a basket full o' them ; and we carried them home for 

 him to Catty Murphy's, and he gev us half a crown, saying, ' I should like 

 to see thee again to-morrow.' Well, afther two or three evenins of this 

 work, he beginning to chat quite friendly, and Dinny telling him the devil's 

 own stories about salmon, he and the young wife tuk the car into Limerick, 

 and when he came back, sent for us and said he'd like to try for a salmon ; 

 and then he showed us some gavauls of flies he had bought at O'Shaugh- 

 nessy's. Well, we took him over the fall, and we all thrashed the water 

 night after night, he givin us the half crown always, tell we seen that he 

 was getting sick of it, when Dinny says to him, ' Them flies is no use at all, 



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