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not look at. I then put on an artificial frog 

 with a double snap, which I had among my 

 baits, and he seized it in a moment. I struck 

 as soon as he turned, and luckily hooked 

 him; and directly that he felt himself 

 pricked, swoop! he was off like a whale. 

 I let him have about forty yards of line, 

 though not too gently, before I attempted 

 to check him. I then was obliged to put 

 my tackle to the test, as he was likely to 

 gain, had I allowed him more line, a rocky 

 part of the stream. When I found that 

 my tackle would hold him, I began to wind 

 him gently back, and had got him, after a 

 good deal of manoeuvring, within twenty 

 yards of the end of the rod, when off he 

 went again. He repeated this three or four 

 times, growing weaker every sweep he took, 

 till at last I got so far master of him as 

 to draw him to the shore, where Burrell 

 landed him with a gaff. 



Rev. J* T. But how did you come by the 

 trouts ? I was out myself this morning, and 



