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He was either lazy and missed the fly, or it was not entirely to his mind. He was not touched, and we drew back to consider. "Over him again while he is angry," is the saying in some rivers, and I have known it to answer where the fish feed greedily. But it will not do here; we must give him time; and we turn again to the fly-book.
He had been trained to do what was right and now did it instinctively, not because it was his duty, but because it was the only thing that occurred to him. And so, upon a certain day in June while I was reading in my study, Jerry went out with a rod and fly-book bound for the silent pools of Sweetwater, where the big trout lurked.
Perhaps I held him too tight: at all events, after a furious plunge, back came the line; the casting line had snapped at the top link. There was no more to be said or done, except to hunt for another fly in the trout fly-book. Here there was no such thing, but a local spectator offered me a huge fly, more like a gaff, and equipped with a large iron eye for attaching the gut to.
Never was such a delightful confusion of colour! Great dock leaves two feet wide clothe the path by the water-side with all the splendour of malachite. The breeze blows up stream, and the trout are rising incessantly, taking something small. They will not look at any artificial fly, even in the rippling breeze; there is nothing small enough in any fly-book to catch them this afternoon.
'No, Paul, no thief, not so bad as that, I hope, anyhow; never touched a feather of the squire's. But you dropped a song, Paul, a bit of writing. Paul turned pale. 'And the Lord forgive me! I put it in the squire's fly-book. 'The Lord forgive you! Amen! said Paul, solemnly. Wearily and slowly they stepped on towards the old man's cottage.
In the afternoon Bishop Berkeley's book called me again and it was not until late that I realized that the boy had been gone from the house for four hours. His rod, creel and fly-book were missing from their accustomed places but even then I suspected nothing. It was not until the approach of the dinner hour when, Jerry not having returned, I began to think of yesterday's visitor.
It turned out that his request was a favour to me, for it discovered the fact that I had left my fly-book, with the pink card in it, beside an old mill, a quarter of a mile up the stream.
The handsome old fisherman appeared at once; but she instantly perceived by his face that something was wrong. "This is ferry strange, Miss Honnor," said he, "that the fly-book is not in the bag. And I could not have dropped it out. I was not thinking of looking for it when we started, for I knew I had put it there " "Oh, I know, Robert," she said at once. "Mr.
"Daisy, everything else about you is all wrong, but your frock is all right." "That is simple and comprehensive and reassuring," murmured Ruth absently, as she bent over the fly-book with Gethryn.
Aunt Jennie, that she is in league with the rest of the feminine population. I think I am beginning to be glad that we are going away soon. When I returned to our house I found Dr. Grant still there. He has not been very busy lately, but he was showing symptoms of an early departure, returning certain flies he had been discussing to a very large fly-book.
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