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STUDIES OF NATURE 



course you must pull him in ; and then, there 

 is that ugly half minute while you are getting 

 the hook out of his throat, and during which 

 he looks at you with more intelligence than 

 you care to notice. And so I am better 



y 



pleased if the fish will just let me alone, and 

 go on disporting themselves on the brave sea 

 bottom. 



Perhaps it is this sea-fishing which does not 

 suit me. After all, when I come to remem- 

 ber it, the master of the craft himself had 



