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Witchdorter persisted until the shades of evening had well 

 drawn in they had no more success, and their imaginative 

 minds pictured the lost barbel swimming about with the hook 

 in his snout and about a dozen yards of line trailing after him. 

 Needless to say if this was a correct representation of things 

 going on below, the other fish might well be scared and take 

 their hook and not those attached to the lines of the two patient 

 anglers above, who followed the example set them by the 

 finny tribe and set off with the boat homewards, having first 

 left a real good pudding in the swim in readiness for the time 

 when the scared fish should recover sufficient confidence to 

 return to their usual haunts. Mr. Hopper will therefore defer 

 an account of his further barbel experiences until his next 

 article. 



