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Excerpt from Letters From the South, Vol. 2 of 2: Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816
I borrowed a fishing-rod from a miller near by, and followed the brook some iniles without catch ing a fish of any kind; either because there were none, or that the little wretches would not come and be caught. 1 was always in hopes of catch ing them, however; and this, Itake it, after all, is the great pleasure of fishing and fowling. Trout do not abound so greatly in the mountain streams to the south, as they do in the north. The chubb, chiven, or knob, as Walton calls him, is common in many places; but the most singular fish in this part of the world is called the stone toter, * whose brow is surmounted with several little sharp horns, by the aid of which he totes small fiat stones from one part of the brook to another more quiet, in order to make a snug little circular inclosure, for his lady to lie in safely. This is truly a most ancient and fishlike gallantry, and right worthy the imitation of all bad hus bands.
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