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did not seem to give me much encouragement about 

 the fishing. He said that in winter he caught a 

 good many salmon with nets and spearing them, 

 and showed me the tackle he used for the latter, 

 which were simply very rudely made listers, or three- 

 pronged spears, and much after the form of Neptune's 

 implement with which he urges on his sea-horses, 

 or the trident that Britannia holds when she appears 

 in her war-paint on a pennypiece. He said there 

 were not any salmon there until winter, that he never 

 heard of one being caught with a rod and line, and 

 fairly laughed at the idea of my proposing such a 

 thing. He gave me to understand that there were 

 some trout, pike, and grayling, which I found to be 

 the case. 



One day my eldest daughter (the late Lady Hope- 

 town), then a little girl, came running up to me, 

 saying, " Oh, pappy, pappy, I've seen such a big 

 fish. I'm sure it must have been a salmon, it was 

 such a big fish, and looked so bright, as if it was 

 made of silver. I'm sure it must have been a salmon, 

 for it leapt quite high out of the water." Having 

 heard this report, and having been shown the .exact 

 spot where the fish had been seen, I took a double- 

 handed trout rod, which, in fact, was what is called 



