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him I was fishing for salmon and not for trout, and 

 each time I caught him I had a flight of three pretty 

 large treble hooks upon my trace, so that he had a 

 pretty good mouthful each time, and one which I 

 should have thought would have spoiled his appetite 

 and made him shy. 



Many years after this my daughter, who had been 

 the first to see the salmon and tell me of it when 

 she was quite a child, was dining with her husband 

 at the table d'hote which overlooks the Rhine Falls, 

 and on hearing some people opposite her mention 

 the name of salmon, she pricked up her ears, and 

 overheard one of the party say that there was a 

 story of an Englishman having once caught salmon 

 in the Rhine Falls ; but that they did not believe 

 that any one could prove the fact. It was, however, 

 as she said to me, a fact ; and if she had chosen she 

 could have enlightened them as to the real state of 

 the case. 



Having during the time I was at Schaffhausen 

 killed fifteen salmon, the anger of the old fisherman, 

 Pierre Huxley, waxed strong. He said, " How could 

 I do a thing that no one had ever done before ? " 

 The fact, I suppose, was that no one had ever tried. 

 " Ah," he said, when I wished him good-bye, " adieu 



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