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I killed another trout of seventeen pounds, and 

 another of fourteen, and I got hold of one which was, 

 perhaps, the real great Levi- Nathan of the place, but, 

 after having had him on for a long time, he got me 

 round one of the aforesaid piles, and though I could 

 feel him deep down, for the water must have been 

 in that place twenty or thirty feet deep, and having 

 tried all means possible to get him free from the 

 post till it grew too dark to see what I was doing, 

 I was obliged to pull at my line and break it, and 

 leave him to his fate. 



The dimensions of the seventeen pound trout 

 were length from tip of nose to end of tail, thirty- 

 two inches ; girth between first and second fin, 

 nineteen inches ; girth round vent, thirteen inches. 



The twenty-two and a-half pounds trout was, of 

 course, the handsomest, and his back was as broad 

 as a large sucking pig's. The shape of the seven- 

 teen pounds fish was exactly that of the twenty-two 

 and a-half pounds fish turned upside down. 



There were others besides myself at Constance who 

 used to be indefatigable in the pursuit of these big fish, 

 and I know they used to kill some big ones, but how 

 big I cannot say. The trout I caught was the largest 

 1 ever saw caught or killed in fair fight with a rod. 



