Down North and Up Along 
of the pool, if it had only happened to be our 
turn. But when our turn came, we never got 
the big one. We caught any number of small 
ones, however, and lost more than we caught, 
for they had a way of jumping off the hook in 
mid-air and falling back into the water with a 
shake and a flirt. The largest ones invariably 
did this, and did it with such apparent intention 
and malice that we began to think there might 
be something in the books, after all. 
They were so pretty we hated to cook them ; 
some were dark in colour with deep-coloured 
spots ; and some were golden-brown, almost 
as though saturated with light, with lighter 
and brighter spots, and these were the prettiest. 
We did cook them ; and what could be daintier 
or more delicious than the snowy-white or 
salmon-pink morsels that came out of the 
frying-pan ? We ate all we caught, and would 
not like to say how many that was. 
Nor did this end the adventures of that day 
under Franey. While resting after our delect- 
able dinner and the exciting events of the morn- 
ing, we saw a small party of men and boys 
advancing down the glen. They were burdened 
with something they bore upon poles resting on 
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