Audiobook Dictation: “Just as he made his cast…”

Just as he made his cast, he saw the fleeing drake and the pursuing hawk come round the bend.

Bem no momento em que lançava a linha, viu o pato fugitivo e o falcão que o perseguia surgirem na curva do rio.

He saw the frantic fugitive dive over the ledge and disappear.

Viu o fugitivo desesperado mergulhar por sobre a saliência e desaparecer.

He saw the great hawk swoop savagely.

Viu o grande falcão dar um mergulho feroz.

He tried to check his cast, but it was too late.

Tentou deter o lançamento, mas era tarde demais.

The last drop-fly, as luck would have it, caught just in the corner of the hawk's angrily open beak, hooking itself firmly.

A última mosca, quis a sorte, prendeu-se bem no canto do bico furiosamente aberto do falcão, cravando-se com firmeza.

At the sudden sharp sting of it, the great bird turned his head and noticed, for the first time, the fisherman standing on the bank.

Com a súbita e aguda ferroada, a grande ave virou a cabeça e notou, pela primeira vez, o pescador de pé na margem.

At the same moment he felt the light restraint of the almost invisible leader upon his wings, where the other two flies had affixed themselves.

No mesmo instante sentiu a leve contenção da linha de ponta, quase invisível, sobre as asas, onde as outras duas moscas tinham se prendido.

The drag upon his beak and the light check upon his wings were inexplicable to him, and appalling.

O puxão no bico e a leve contenção nas asas eram-lhe inexplicáveis, e aterradores.

For a moment the fisherman, bewildered, tried to play him like a salmon.

Por um momento o pescador, desnorteado, tentou cansá-lo como a um salmão.

Then the leader parted from the line.

Então a linha de ponta se soltou da linha principal.