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FOOTNOTES

[{1}]

Too true, alas!

[{2}]

It should be added that large trout, up to six pounds, are sometimes taken. One boatman assured me that he had caught two three-pounders at one cast.

[{3}]

From motives of delicacy I suppress the true name of the river.

[{4}]

After this paper was in print, an angler was actually drowned while engaged in playing a salmon. This unfortunate circumstance followed, and did not suggest the composition of the story.