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large fish amongst you, and preserved him 

 for crimping? 



PoiET. — We have preserved two fishes in 

 the barrel, but I fear they are much below 

 your proposed size. 



Hal. — They are good fish, and of the 

 average size of the large grayling in this 

 stream — 16 inches long, and about 1 J lb. ; 

 they will make a good variety boiled and 

 placed in the middle of the fried fish. And 

 how many have you caught altogether ? 



PoiET. — I have basketed (to coin a word) 

 three trout and six grayling. 



Phys. — And I have taken seven grayling. 

 1 caught trout likewise, but, not considering 

 them in proper season, I returned them to the 

 river : but Ornither has been the most suc- 

 cessful — he has killed ten grayling. 



Hal. — The trout is rarely good in this 

 river — at least I never saw one that cut red; 

 and yet I have taken them in July, when their 

 external appearance was perfect and beauti- 

 ful; but they have, to my taste, always a flabby 

 and soft character of flesh, and at all seasons 

 here are inferior for the table to grayhng ; 



