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the tideway; and, from information I have received from 
fishermen who are acquainted with these waters that lie 
nearer to civilization, I have reason to believe that brook- 
trout can there be caught upward of ten pounds in weight. 
Moving down to the run, I recommenced, and rose a very 
large fish the second cast; but our acquaintance got no 
farther, for all my blandishments were futile to induce him 
again to move. A little lower down I was more success- 
ful, for I struck a regular Trojan, whose memory still lives, 
and to whose performances I award the palm over all others. 
As soon as he felt himself pricked, contrary to the cus- 
tom of his brethren in a similar predicament, he rushed up 
stream with the velocity of a bullet, through the throat of 
surging water and into the next pool; fortunately, the 
ground was accessible, and I was enabled to follow, but for 
the life of me I could not, dared not, take a pull on him. 
From the fish’s movements I should think he was swimming 
about two feet deep, and, from the power and speed that he 
showed, appeared totally to ignore any control. However, 
it’s a straight road that has no turn, and if I was led a 
dance in the first instance,my turn was coming. After 
walking two hundred yards and giving out nearly one hun- 
dred yards of line, the drag told, and my friend thought it 
better to change his course; down stream he came with a 
rush, still without showing, but just as he got to the smooth, 
oily-like water that preceded the break of the rapid, he com- 
menced springing with great rapidity. Five or six times 
this ruse was repeated, when off again my gallant foe went 
down stream with as much energy and spirit as he had at 
first displayed. Well, to make a long story short, to ‘and. 
fro we both went, up and down, first one way and then 
another, till the fun became hard work, and the exertion 
caused globules of perspiration to stand on my face, and, 
worse than all, the confounded flies attacked me with re- 
