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friend's example ; though the fubftitution of bread 

 and cheefe for infect food, was more to my tafte, 

 warned down with a little cold whifkey-punch, 

 (real Rofcrea,) a beverage no brother of the angle 

 mould be without on fimilar expeditions, if not too 

 potent. 



After the refrefhment of the inner man, I was 

 foon on the move again to try another turn with 

 my friend below. Three times did I throw over 

 him, and was jufl on the eve of walking away 

 when I found he had taken my ftretcher (the Al- 

 der above-mentioned) underwater, and had hooked 

 himfelf. What a rum he made up the ftream 

 paft me, to reach, I imagined, fbme well-known 

 lair of his ! Now or never was the time to flop 

 him, or good bye to him, and fome of my tackle 

 too in all probability ! To wind up the line im- 

 mediately I felt the flighteft flackening of his on- 

 ward courfe, was my only chance ; and well was 

 Copham's wood tried, when the baffled trout found 

 he muft retrace his courfe, and the tough little rod 

 bent almoft double ! AfTured that the worft was 

 paft, I very foon after had the fatis faction of feeing 

 the tired trout almoft motionlefs at the foot of the 

 bank I was ftanding on. As far as I could judge 

 the fifti was more than a pound, and as yellow as 



