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dogs; but if driven into a new wood, he 

 seems to lose his acquired habits of caution, 

 and becomes stupid. 



PoiET. — This great fish, that Ornither 

 has just caught, must be nearly of the weight 

 I assigned to him. 



Hal. — O no ! he is, I think, above 5 lbs., 

 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, con- 

 sequently, upon the scale which is appropriate 

 to well-fed trouts, should weigh 5 lbs. 10 oz. 

 — which, within an ounce, I doubt not, is his 

 weight. 



Phys. — O ! I see you take the mathema- 

 tical 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. 



Hal. — He is a well-fed fish, but, in pro- 

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