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party was coming up, and that it was a murder the five 

 fish were marked by the twine of the net, as, if they were 

 not so, it would appear that they had all been taken by the 

 rod. Upon this I very quietly scored the whole eight fish 

 across with my knife, and set to fishing immediately. By 

 this time our friends the Captain and John Cayley were close 

 upon us, and just as they arrived, I was fortunate enough 

 to hook another splendid fish, which I killed in their sight, 

 and scored with my knife as I had done to the others. 

 Seeing which, no doubt entered their minds but that we 

 had killed the whole nine with ' our fiery-browns. It was 

 some months before we undeceived them. The Yankee 

 thus proceeds with his narration. 



" 6 Owing to the bushy shores of the stream, we were com- 

 pelled to fish standing upon boulders, located in its centre ; 

 and whenever we hooked a fish, there was no alternative 

 but to plunge into the current and trust to fortune. For 

 some unaccountable reason of course it could not have 

 been our fault we lost more than half of those we hooked. 

 But it was worth a moderate fortune to see the magnificent 

 leaps which the fish performed, not only when they took 

 the fly, but when they attempted to escape. There was 

 not one individual that did not give us a race of at least half 

 a mile.' " 



"Well, that is a whopper,'' said the Commissioner ; "the 

 entire distance from the pool under the fall to the bridge 

 is not a quarter of a mile. But go on, Bishop." 



