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same worm serves for fish after fish, and 

 is good when only a mangled fragment 

 remains. It was astonishing, also, to find 

 that smallness of hook, deemed necessary 

 on waters below, was wasted considerate- 

 ness on the mountain. Noticing that the 

 Provost's hook was large enough to be 

 the basis of a seatrout fly, and thinking 

 that he might have none smaller, I had 

 offered him, when he was about to go 

 off, a few Stewart tackles, and these, with 

 Highland courtesy, he had accepted ; but 

 when we met for luncheon I noticed that 

 it was a large single hook he had been 

 using, and his basket held six dozen trout ! 

 It could not have been from unwillingness 

 to lose time in changing that the Provost 

 had left the Stewart tackles unused. Soon 

 after beginning, he mentioned, he had 

 been broken by an unexpectedly heavy 

 fish, a half-pounder. As he had put on 

 another of his large hooks, it was clear 

 that he held them to be better adapted 

 to the ways of the upland trout. How 

 the fish contrive to seize them I cannot 



