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which the railway runs, the basket was 

 very heavy. It seemed to be little if at 

 all under thirty pounds. 



Experience, though it has not lessened 

 the vividness of remembrance, has given 

 to that incident a natural instead of a 

 miraculous aspect. Next time we had 

 the privilege of fishing on Clatto we went 

 late in the afternoon, and no sooner had 

 the sun dipped behind the hills than the 

 trout began to rise. At first they had a 

 marked preference for a particular fly, 

 which, if I remember rightly, was the 

 Teal-and-Green; but as the dusk deepened 

 and colours became indistinct they sprang 

 at all flies indiscriminately. Both of us 

 frequently hooked more than a single fish 

 at a cast, and one of us landed two at a 

 time, each of them slightly over a pound. 

 Wheresoever else I have thrown a fly, in 

 Scotland or in England, I have found the 

 same manifestation of Nature. I have 

 known the trout rising so well that it was 

 almost impossible to cast without having 

 a fish at the lure instantly. The evening 



