They told me he wur in the river, and I said I'd have him, and so I did.

You don't see many fish that size about here now, I'm thinking.

Good-night, gentlemen, good-night." And out he went, and left us alone.
We could not take our eyes off the fish after that.

It really was a remarkably fine fish.

We were still looking at it, when the local carrier, who had just stopped at the inn, came to the door of the room with a pot of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.
"Good-sized trout, that," said George, turning round to him.
"Ah! you may well say that, sir," replied the man; and then, after a pull at his beer, he added, "Maybe you wasn't here, sir, when that fish was caught ?" "No," we told him.