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Updated: May 4, 2025
Tom came to play, the green ball was as invariably under a cushion. 'Well, you are a sniggler, Madge, said her brother, becoming very angry. 'You play for not a single thing but the cushion. I didn't think you cared so much for twopence-halfpenny in coppers. 'How can I play out when you follow? said Madge; but even that flattery of his skill was unavailing.
It is a very pleasant thing to hook a salmon when you are all alone, as I was then alone with yourself and the Goddess of Fishing. This salmon, just like the other, now came back, and instantly began the old tactics of heavy plunging tugs. But I knew the gut was sound this time, and as I fancied he had risen to the sniggler, I had no anxiety about the tackle holding.
I had not been casting long enough to smoke half a cigarette, when I hooked each of those fish. They rose at flies which were the exact opposites of each other in size, character, and colour. They were ready to rise at anything but the sniggler. And I had nothing to offer them, absolutely nothing bigger than a small red-spinner from the Test.
My messenger came back with one small fatigued-looking fly, a Popham, I think, which had been lent by some one at a farmhouse. The water was so heavy that the small fly seemed useless; however, we fastened it on as a dropper, using the sniggler as the trail fly; so exhausted were our resources, that I had to cut a piece of gut off a minnow tackle and attach the small fly to that.
'Wait a bit, said he; 'I'll catch you. You can't always sniggle successfully. Even Roberts himself I beg your pardon Mr. Roberts, it was the other Roberts I meant couldn't always get under the cushion. Wait a bit. There was no doubt that Madge was a most provoking and persistent sniggler.
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