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and I have been more than once obliged to pull at 

 my tackle and break it off, and let everything take 

 its chance. As I have before mentioned there was a 

 large hammer worked by a stream led from the falls, 

 which was going all day, there being a kind of iron 

 foundry there, where there were a good many men 

 employed. It chanced one day that one of these men 

 passed me whilst I was playing a salmon; his curiosity 

 seemed much excited, and he stayed watching my 

 operations with much surprise and interest. I believe 

 he thought that I was a lunatic, and had escaped from 

 some Maison de Sante. When, however, he saw me 

 get my fish to the shore and gaff him, his delight 

 knew no bounds ; he jabbered away at me in German, 

 the greater part of which conversation I did not 

 understand ; he patted me on the back and performed 

 various antics that denoted the greatest satisfaction. 

 I fully thought that he would have embraced me, 

 which would have been a bore as his face from 

 working in the said foundry was as black as a 

 sweep's. Having seen the interesting performance 

 of killing a salmon with a rod and line, he quickly 

 imparted the fact to his brother foundrymen, who 

 were constantly on the watch to see the Englishman 

 fishing ; and as soon as they saw me into a fish, out 



