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42 head off. When he had reduced the radius of his circle to about twenty-five feet, he struck a tremendous pace through the water. It would be false modesty in a sportsman to say that I was not equal to the occasion. Instead of turning around with him, as he expected, I stepped to the bow, braced myself, and let the boat swing. Round went the fish, and round we went like a top. I saw a line of Mount Marcys all around the horizon; the rosy tint of the west made a broad bank of pink along the sky above the tree-tops; the evening star was a perfect circle of light, a hoop of gold in the heavens. We whirled and reeled, and reeled and whirled. I was willing to give the malicious beast butt and line and all, if he would only go the other way for a change.

When I came to myself, Luke was gaffing the trout at the boat-side. After we had got him in and dressed him, he weighed three-quarters of a pound! Fish always lose by being "got in and dressed." It is best to weigh them while they are in the water. The only really large one I ever caught, got away with my leader when I first struck him. He weighed ten pounds. Charles Dudley Warner.

painter! tell me true,
 * Has your hand the cunning to draw
 * Shapes of things that you never saw?

Ay? Well, here is an order for you.

Woods and cornfields, a little brown,—
 * The picture must not be over-bright,—
 * Yet all in the golden and gracious light

Of a cloud, when the summer sun is down.


 * Alway and alway, night and morn,
 * Woods upon woods, with fields of corn
 * Lying between them, not quite sere,

And not in the full, thick, leafy bloom, When the wind can hardly find breathing room
 * Under their tassels; cattle near,