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gentle art. Oh ! those Trent eels were good at supper after a 

 long pull home against stream. 



The trout season has been a very good one ; the fish were 

 early in good condition, and there were plenty of them. Up 

 to the second week in August Mr. Hopper had landed 77! 

 brace of the speckled beauties five of them weighing over 

 lilbs. each, five between ii and i|lbs. each, and about thirty 

 over a pound each. Mr. Hopper returns fish weighing under 

 ilb. each, and he had not occasion this season to return more 

 than 8 or 10 brace. Twice when fishing with two flies on his 

 cast he had two fish on at once. 



Before concluding these notes Mr. Hopper must impart to 

 the readers of them a good joke made by Witchdorter. 

 Whilst on the Trent this year whenever a " big " or " out of 

 the way " word was used by Helterton, Witchdorter, or Mr. 

 Hopper, the exclamation was invariably made "that's a real 

 good word." So many real good words were constantly 

 coming to the surface that it was humorously proposed to 

 compile a dictionary of them, and Witchdorter immediately 

 dubbed the intended new publication as " Dixon's Johnsonary." 

 Good old Witchdorter ! you scored one there. 



