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head just over the boundary of his neighbour's 

 domain, it is worth half a dozen killed in his 

 own mountains. 



By the banks of the Zeskuskal we sat 

 down and breakfasted, and so likely looked 

 the pools, and so confident were our guides of 

 the abundance offish in the stream at our feet, 

 that whilst the others made a fire, I put 

 together my rod and proceeded to whip all the 

 likeliest places for trout. 



Every kind of fly which seemed suited to 

 the tastes of uneducated fish was tried in suc- 

 cession, and then two or three of Mr. Ogden's 

 charmers for such as have reached the highest 

 standard of piscine education. But all the 

 temptations of Ogden, all the wiles learnt on 

 the Gloucestershire Colne, were of no avail. 

 Not a rise rewarded my efi'orts ; not a single 

 troutie, however tiny, accepted my invitation 

 to breakfast. So we had to be content once 

 more with our bread- and- water diet, and at 



