Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 274
Y A I. FISH. 743 yield large fish. Sir John Hawkins speaks of a sal-mon caught in an English river in April, 1789,which was four feet long, three feet around thebody, and weighed seventy pounds. There is astory told of a Highlander who hooked a salmon an ax, but when I visited the valley of the… … in the River Awe, and played the fish for hours,until night came on without his being able to tireit out. Then, as the fish was sulking quietly at thebottom, he lay down, took the line in his teeth,that any motion might waken him, and went tosleep. The Highlander slept and the salmonsulked until…
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