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like in a few days more? But where are the 

 fish." 



For answer I turned them out on a mossy piece 

 of turf and put them ship-shape, and, looking at 

 them, I wondered if Nature with all her wondrous 

 bounty offered anything for the food of man more 

 daintily captivating to the sight than these little 

 pictures of strength and beauty. I thought not, 

 and never tired of wandering up and up in search 

 of them. I was sometimes in midstream, at others 

 on the bank, but always casting up from behind 

 some hiding-place. 



