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their tails, their joy is turned into forrowbya little 

 quiclcnefs on your part with your hand and eye. 

 Hooked by the tail or in the (kin of the belly, 

 a trout not exceeding half a pound in weight will 

 thus delude you into the idea that you have hold 

 of a monfter at leaft. Ruming up the centre of 

 the ftream, if one be near, he rights fo gallantly 

 for his life, that you cannot help feeling a certain 

 kind of twinge within, when you difcover all the 

 fplutter to have been caufed by fo fmall and plucky 

 a creature. 



Why the trout fhould be fo unufually plentiful 

 in the Grwyne Fawr is owing, I believe, in no 

 fmall degree to the nature of its rocky uneven bed. 

 No net could poflibly fweep it. You, who are 

 accuftomed to fpend hundreds in trying to preferve, 

 (too often in vain,) ftudy Dame Nature's example 

 in this refpecl:. A few deep holes cut in the 

 bed of your water, and fome ftones, fufficiently 

 large not to be warned afide by the torrents of 

 winter, judicioufly fcattered about, would preferve 

 your fifli far more fecurely than the expenfive 

 employment of half-a-dozen keepers. 



What a (harp look out muft a trout keep from 

 behind one of the large ftones, he fo loves early in 

 the feafon to make his lair of ! The flies, living 



