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little chance with them at first, but some 

 heavy showers having fallen the preceding 

 evening, the water became discoloured, and 

 their minnows uselefs ; they had recourse to 

 worms, and the stock was soon exhausted: 

 we had taken eight brace of trout, and about 

 fourteen pounds weight of eels, and were 

 pretty equal in succefs. Thus circumstan- 

 ced, we sought for baits under cow dung, 

 and large stones : in the course of my search, 

 I found two white snails, which I was de- 

 termined to try ; I had scarce put in my hook 

 baited with one, when I perceived a fine 

 trout dart from under a tree root at the bait, 

 which I caught, he weighed about two 

 pounds; with the addition of a small bad 

 worm to the remainder of the snail, I soon 

 caught another trout, near the same size, 

 and immediately in the same spot a third, 

 mach larger, with the remaining snail ; and 

 I could discover evident signs of envy and 

 chagrin in the countenance of one of my 

 companions, who afsisted me in landing it : 

 tiiis gave me a decided superiority over 



