gentleman, with the agility of youth, jumped upon 

 a rock, and, giving the butt, 1 the rod nearly 

 donbled ; but the greenheart was stanch and true, 

 and, gradually straightening, it slowly pulled back 

 the fish. After leading the salmon up and down 

 the stream a few times, my frieinl turn* 1 th<> fish 

 toward the shore, and as soon as it felt the bottom 

 it wriggled out of the water upon the beach. 



u Well done ! w I cried, chuckling with delight at 

 the joke. 



" Did I not tell you I would get that fish!" again 

 shouted my friend. 



Not wishing for a moment to destroy his happy 

 delusion, I kept silent Later I told the old gen- 

 tleman. He seemed disheartened, and said, " It is 

 very annoying the way those small salmon can 

 fool one." Had I not seen this happen, we both 

 would have thought that the fish which rose first 

 was the one killed. I have often had a salmon 

 rise three or four times nearly in the same place, 

 believing it to be the same fish ; but the above 

 experience shows that we are sometimes deceived. 



When you have risen a fish early in the season 

 it is a good plan to leave the fly instead of casting 

 again ; for the salmon will often, after missing the 

 fly the first time, immediately turn and seize it, 

 whereas if you had taken it away he might have 



1 A term used In angling. When a severe strain to pat upon the 

 rod to cheek the run of a flsh, it is called "giringthe butt," 



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