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the table. I have one — and another, that will 

 weigh nearly a pound apiece. Now, there is 

 a cunning perch that has stolen my minnow ; 

 I know he is a large one. He has robbed me 

 again and again ; and if I fish on in this way, 

 with the hook through the upper lip, will, I 

 dare say, carry away all the minnows in the 

 kettle. I shall put on a strong small hook, on 

 a stout, though fine, gut, with slender wire 

 round the top, and pass the hook through the 

 back fin of the minnow, and try my sagacity 

 against his. Lo ! I have him ! — and a very 

 strong fish he is, and gone to the bottom; but 

 even though the greatest perch in the river, he 

 cannot bite the gut, — he will soon be tired 

 and taken. He now comes up, and is landed. 

 He must be above 3 lbs. — amagnificentperch ! 

 Kill him and crimp him, fisherman ; take our 

 two trout, and the three perch, to the kitchen, 

 and let them be dressed as usual. You shall 

 have a good dish of fish, worthy of such de- 

 termined anglers. But I see one of your party 

 coming up by the side of the river, who seems 

 tired and out of spirits. 



Hal. — It is Physicus, who has this day 



