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Fly-FiJhing. 



How well do I remember a cafe in point while 

 fifhing many years ago in the Wye, which I began 

 "flgg' m g" at about ten in the morning and con- 

 tinued doing fo until twelve with very little fuccefs. 

 When lo ! all at once, the river feemed perfectly 

 alive with fifh ; though it was very mortifying, I 

 can tell you, to find that not one of them would 

 notice my flies. At length I did fucceed in land- 

 ing a trout that rofe at me, evidently with much 

 doubt, though fufficiently in earneft to enable me 

 to ftrike and fecure him before he difcovered his 

 miftake. In prefling his gullet out dropped a 

 pellet compofed entirely of "grannams."* I no 

 fooner faw this than I put on, not one only, but 

 two " grannams" with a " cochabonddu" in the 

 centre. By half-paft one o'clock (a little under 

 three-quarters of an hour) I filled my bafket, which 

 is no fmall one, to the brim, chiefly with trout and 

 grayling. Not fatisfied with this I returned home 

 (about ten minutes' walk) to unload ; and within 

 the next hour I had to retrace my fteps to do the 

 fame again. Slaughter fuch as this, within two 

 hours, I have never witnefled before or fmce ! A 



* Some years have pafled fmce this happened, ftill I feel 

 pretty fure the fly was a " grannam" 



