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she felt she was quite equal to putting in the cleek, but 
would admit that the preliminary feat lay beyond her 
powers. 
To sum up—the Etne is a charming little river, 
very early and very easy ; each of its dozen pools, 
from Lilfos downwards, is commanded from the bank, 
except one (Straake-pol), which must be waded. There 
is no harling, nor a single boat on the river. On the 
other hand, the season on Etne, as on most small rivers, 
is liable to be extremely short—one good week, it may 
be two, and it is over. In the year above described, 
we were decidedly in luck’s way in exactly hitting off 
to a day the most favourable period. Nothing had 
been done previous to our arrival; while in June, with 
continued hot weather, the river ran almost dry, and 
sport became impossible. The following year, the main 
run of fish began about ten days later, May was a 
blank, and the first ten days of June proved to be the 
most productive period of the season. 
“ Big rivers, big floods ; small rivers, short season.” 
