{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.