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CHAPTER II 



Observations of the Otter and Chub. 



EN. My friend Piscator, you have kept time with 

 my thoughts, for the sun is just rising, and I 

 myself just now come to this place, and the 

 dogs have just now put down an otter. Look 

 down at the bottom of the hill there in that 

 meadow, chequered with water-lilies and lady- 

 smocks ; there you may see what work they 

 make : look ! look ! you may see all busy, men and dogs, dogs and 

 men all busy. 



Pise. Sir, I am right glad to meet you, and glad to have so fair an 

 entrance into this day's sport, and glad to see so many dogs and more 

 men all in pursuit of the otter. Let us compliment no longer, but 

 join unto them. Come, honest Venator, let us be gone, let us 

 make haste ; I long to be doing ; no reasonable hedge or ditch shall 

 hold me. 



