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a very tempting manner before the {harp eyes of 

 the fpeckled gentry beneath. And very well it 

 was for me that I took the hint ; for five of the 

 feven trout that fell to my lot during the next hour, 

 were victims to the fedu&ions of an artificial fly 

 of this kind which I had put on three of which 

 muft have weighed about two pounds. 



The pleafure I was beginning to experience 

 from the improved appearance of the infide of my 

 bafket, was by no means increafed by an accident 

 that happened to me, worfe if anything than the 

 firft. 



Juft below where I was ftanding, I faw the 

 water curling in that quiet, circular manner, that 

 told me pretty truly that there was a good trout 

 at hand, waiting, perhaps, for one of my flies. I 

 threw juft above him in a wave of the water he 

 had left in fucking in fome infecl: for his dinner (or 

 luncheon, more correctly fpeaking, at fuch a time 

 of the day). Up he came to do the fame, appa- 

 rently, to my fecond dropper ; when in my great 

 anxiety at the fight of fo fine a fim, I ftruck a mo- 

 ment too foon, before the fly in fa& was in his 

 mouth. 



Difappointed, but not daunted at this, I walked 

 quietly away from the water-fide to follow my finny 



