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not envy. Now all is right again ; try that pool. 

 There is a fish — ay ! and another, that runs at your 

 bait; but they are small ones, not much more than 

 twice as large as the bleak ; yet they show their spirit, 

 and though they cannot swallow it, they have torn it. 

 Put on another bleak. There, you have another run. 



ORN. — Ay, it is a small fish, not much more than 

 a foot long ; yet he fights well. 



HAL. — You have him, and I will land him. I do 

 not think such a fish a bad initiation into this kind 

 of sport. He does not agitate so much as a larger 

 one, and vet gratifies curiositv. There, we have him. 

 A very beautiful fish ; yet he has the leech, or louse, 

 though his belly is quite white. 



ORN. — This fish is so like a trout, that, had 1 

 caught him when alone, I should hardly have remarked 

 his peculiarities ; and I am not convinced, that it is 

 not a variety of the common trout, altered in many 

 generations, by the predatory habits of his ancestors. 



HAL. — How far the principle of change of 

 character and transmission of such character to the 

 offspring will apply, I shall not attempt to determine, 

 and whether all the varieties of the salmo with teeth 

 in their mouth may not have been produced from one 

 original; yet this fish is noiv as distinct from the 

 trout, as the cliarr or the umbla is ; and in Europe, it 

 exists only below great falls in streams connected 



