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That was all I ever saw in a fish. I remember, indeed, 

 that I caught below there, opposite Fussa Quay, a big 

 salmon with an officer's cocked hat on his head; and 

 trouble enough he gave before he was in the boat.' 



" ' Man alive ! ' said Moriarty, ' how could he see the 

 fly with the cocked hat ! ' 



" ' Sure, sir,' says Paddy, ' 'twasn't by the mouth at 

 all I had him ; if it was, we'd make aisy work of it ; 

 but he wanted to drown the fly with his tail when I 

 hooked him, and that was the reason he gev all the 

 play. It must be, sir, you often caught a trout that 

 way, and you know how hard 'tis to land him.' 



" ' But, Paddy, what was the greatest bounce you 

 ever saw a salmon make ? ' 



" ' Why, thin, indeed, sir, I never saw anything out 

 of the way that way.' 



" ' Well — Pve seen the salmon-leap at Leixlip, which 

 is at least twenty feet high, and the salmon spring 

 higher still; so that they are sometimes shot flying.' 



" ' Gondouih I Sure, I'll tell you what happened 

 myself, the day they gave the stag-hunt to the Lord 

 Lieutenant — he that had the Black with him here.' 



" ' Oh, the black servant ! — Lord Talbot, I suppose ? ' 



" ' The very same, sir. Well, that day — maybe you 

 were out yourself, and know it as well as I do ? But I 

 believe you weren't in the country that year ; anyhow, 

 the whole world seen it. The hunt was in Turk Lake ; 

 and as soon as it was over, and the stag was in the boat, 

 all the boats were going down Brickeen Bridge, to dine 

 at Innisfallen. Oyeh ! what a show there was of 'em ! 

 And what a power of ladies and gintlemen there was on 

 the bridge ! There war boats, too, coming up from 

 Glena and Innisfallen. Well, sir, just as the Lord 

 Lieutenant came to the bridge, Mr. Herbert desired him 

 hear the echo first, and the shot for the stag. " Paddy," 

 says he to me, "let's have a noble shot; I trust you 

 with it before any man." So I got the pattherraro — 

 you know the place, sir, of course, where the best echo 

 on the lake is, from the rocks about twenty yards above 

 the bridge % ' (To this I could safely assent.) ' Well, 



