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they were famous in the hamlet, and had 

 been heard of far beyond ; rumours of 

 them, indeed, had reached Godalming 

 and Hindhead, and even Winchester. 



Well, the first day he took me to that 

 stream, T. J. B. showed these fine fish 

 to me, and dared me to catch them if I 

 could. "It would be rather a pity, of 

 course," he said : " I regard them as 

 privileged retainers, you know : but," he 

 went on, pleasantly, " you may try your 

 hand at them. Every one else who has 

 been here has tried. I even brought old 

 Farley, the gamekeeper at the shooting in 

 Kent, who's very good with the fly-rod, 

 to cast for them ; and he couldn't manage 

 it. Farley said he might get one of the 

 trout if he could throw into the waterfall 

 from the opposite side of the pond, which 

 would be fifty yards, and so was out of 

 the question, but that there was no 

 other way of getting at them. The 

 bushes, you see, come out from the bank 

 at both sides of the waterfall. Do you 

 think that from this side of the pond, on 



