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but of a less active, more ponderous, painstaking 

 patience-trying description. The long deep stream 

 of Langhole is before me in which he will hang — 

 does hang, will sulk — does sulk, and has to be 

 roused by stones cast in above, below, and around 

 him. As yet, I have never seen him since his 

 first rise, but Ole, who has climbed the bank above 

 me, and from thence can see far into the clear bright 

 water, informs me that he gets an occasional glimpse 

 of him, and that he is " meget meget store," or 

 very very big. My heart — worn and weary as it 

 is with the alternations of hope and fear — re- flutters 

 at this intelligence, for I know that Ole is usually 

 a fish-decrier or weight-diminisher. All down the 

 length of Langhole, 250 yards by the tale, does 

 he sullenly bore, now and then taking alarming 

 excursions far away to the opposite shore, oftener 

 burying himself deep in the deepest water close 

 at my feet ; but at length he resolves on more 

 active operations, and, stimulated by the rapid 

 stream at the tail of Langhole, takes advantage 



