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return to our native of the Dee, and 

 pursue what may be deemed, perhaps, 

 a monotonous biography. 



We will resume his narrative at a later 

 period of his existence : we will suppose that 

 his first sojourn in salt water has long been 

 over that he has returned to the Dee more 

 than once, and escaping all perils which 

 awaited him by the way, he has again and 

 again been successful in his essay to reach the 

 ocean. We will even, if you please, stretch our 

 elastic imagination so far as to believe, if possible, 

 that he has been taken in a stake net, on the 

 estuary, and has been hastily released by the 

 Flintshire or Cheshire owner, from fear of the 

 consequences ! or that enclosed in the net of a 

 Cheshire fisherman his captor has magnanim- 

 ously returned him to the river, as being within 



