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CHAPTEE V. 



INTERIOR OF A POOL ON THE RIVER. 

 Enter two TROUT. 



1st Trout. 'Tis getting on in the summer, comrade ; 

 we shall have a hatch of stone- flies ere long, and fill 

 our bellies quietly, without risk of being tongue- 

 grappled by a treacherous torture-iron, in shape of a 

 fat insect. Ay ! we shall have to pick and choose 

 upon, and can look before we leap. 



2d Trout. This caution, neighbour, won't work 

 always. Should I, for instance, take to conjecturing 

 about a fine morsel I see floating towards me, up 

 pops a hungry-headed kelt or some such grim 

 glutton, and away it vanishes. Speculation would 

 make us as lean as eels ; so better trust to chance 

 than take to suspicion. However, as you say, this 

 weather will give us abundance see, there are 



