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action, so that he may exhaust himself by 

 exercise. I shall go and catch you some 

 river trout, for your dinner; — but I am glad 

 to see, before I take my leave of you, that 

 Ornither has likewise hold of a fish, — and, 

 from his activity, a lusty sea trout. 



[He goes, and returns in the afternoon.] 



Hal. — Well, Poietes, I hope to see your 

 fish of 20 lbs. 



Poiet. — Alas! he broke me, — turned 

 sulky, and went to the bottom; and when 

 he was roused again, my line came back 

 without the fly ; so that I conclude he had 

 cut my links by rubbing them against some 

 sharp stone. But, since, I have caught two 

 grilses and a sea trout, and lost two others, 

 salmons or grilses, that fairly got the hooks 

 out of their mouths. 



Hal. — And, Ornither, what have you 

 done? Well, I see, — a salmon, a grilse, 

 and a sea trout. And Physicus? 



Phys. — I have lost three fish; one of 

 which broke me, at the top of the pool, by 



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