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seems to lose his acquired habits of caution, 

 and becomes stupid. 



Poiet. — This great fish, that you have 

 just caught, must be nearly of the weight I 

 assigned to him. 



Hal. — O no; he is, I think, above 51bs. 

 but not 6 lbs. ; but we can form a more cor- 

 rect opinion by measuring him, which I can 

 easily do, the but of my rod being a mea- 

 sure. He measures, from nose to fork, a 

 very little less than twenty-four inches, and, 

 consequently, upon the scale which is appro- 

 priate to well-fed trouts, should weigh 5 lbs. 

 lOoz. — which, within an ounce, I doubt not, 

 is his weight. 



Phys. — O, I see you take the mathemati- 

 cal law, that similar solids are to each other 

 in the triplicate ratio of one of their dimen- 

 sions. 



Hal. — You are right. 



Phys. — But I think you are below the 

 mark, for this appears to me an extraordi- 

 narily thick fish. 



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