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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 qfternoon,'\ 



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 I have caught two grilses and a sea 

 trout since, 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 

 running amongst the rocks ; and I have only 

 one small sea trout. 



