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splashed about all over the place and effec- 

 tually disturbed the pool. We caught them 

 up to five pounds weight, and a friend of 

 mine who was on Lord Derby's staff has the 

 outline of a seven-pounder which he cap- 

 tured. I have a photograph of a basket of 

 ten caught by Lord Alexander Russell, and 

 weighing 40 pounds. When there was noth- 

 ing better to do, we used frequently to go 

 out with light rods and small flies and fill 

 our baskets with these fish. I remember 

 one occasion on which one of my sons and I 

 found that a school of them had run up into 

 a " bogan " (a back-water or creek), in the 

 absolutely still and pellucid water of which 

 we could see them quite plainly as they 

 cruised around. We drove them out 

 unceremoniously into an adjoining run 

 where C. and I caught sixty of them, 

 weighing exactly 30 pounds, in two or three 

 hours. 



Of wild animals there were not many. 

 We rarely saw deer, although their tracks 

 were now and then to be found. Now and 



