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attainments of mankind, this branch 

 of our subject ought not to be dis- 

 missed without reference to a conver- 

 sation I once had with old John Atta- 

 quin, then a patriarch among the few 

 survivors of the Mashpee Indians. 

 He had often been Mr. Webster's 

 guide and companion on his fishing 

 trips and remembered clearly many of 

 their happenings. It was with a glow 

 of love and admiration amounting al- 

 most to worship that he related how 

 this great fisherman, after landing a 

 large trout on the bank of the stream, 

 "talked mighty strong and fine to that 

 fish and told him what a mistake he 

 had made, and what a fool he was to 

 take that fly, and that he would have 

 been all right if he had let it alone." 

 Who can doubt that patient search 

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