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six pounds together. My specimens weighed but seven 

 pounds all told, but for a small mountain stream the 

 average of about a quarter of a pound made me very 

 content. As for the baleful influence of All Fools' Day* 

 I now, for the first time in my life, begin to doubt it. 

 Whether I am anything of a prophet it is for the 

 Doctor to say and I fear he is a silent man. 



