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VEN as in springtime newly bare- 

 foot children run round and round 

 the house in abandon of exhilara- 

 tion, so the school of fish felt their spirits 

 lift in unaccountable urge to frolic. 



April clouds dropped their warm showers 

 on the water and the fish watched the funny 

 disturbance and grew both excited and irre- 

 pressibly playful. Their leapings added to 

 the excitement; their rushing churned the 

 water more than the rain. 



In very excess of exuberance a race was 

 staged, not deliberately, for fish do not de- 

 liberate, but spontaneously and reflexly, 



