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a general rod, and I advise all fishermen travelling 

 abroad to take one, as he can then make up a trout 

 rod, pike rod, or a spinning rod, provided he carries 

 an extra butt and spare tops. Having put on a 

 salmon fly I set to work, and at about the third or 

 fourth cast there was a curl under water, that said 

 " By Jove, I rose him ! " This I could never manage 

 to do again ; he rose that once, and only that once, 

 and though I tried him several times, he would not 

 have it. But he was there, of that I had no doubt, 

 and I meant to have him. Accordingly, I came to 

 terms with the man Huxley, and after a good deal 

 of diamond cut diamond work, and trying to over- 

 reach each other in every possible way, it was decided 

 that I was to give him a napoleon, which I put into 

 his hand at once, and was at liberty to fish away as 

 long as I stayed at Schaffhausen. He seemed much 

 pleased with the bargain he had made, pocketed his 

 napoleon, wished me good sport, chuckled, and no 

 doubt laughed in his sleeve, and thought what a 



d d fool of an Englishman I was. 



Finding that a fly was no good, I engaged a little 

 man, who was one of old Huxley's fishermen, to get 

 me some bleak, of which there were plenty in a certain 

 part of the river. With one of these silvery little 



