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ANGLER IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. 



COLLOQUY I. 

 The Angler's Home. Table Talk. 



AMICUS. 



OOKINGr out at my bedroom win- 

 dow, on rising this morning, I in- 

 voluntarily exclaimed, " My friend 

 has chosen well the spot for his 

 retirement ! " the pastoral valley was so bright 

 below, lighted up by a gleam of sunshine ; 

 the little stream, winding through it, swollen 

 by the night's rain, making music ; the hill 

 opposite, bounding the valley, which I think 

 you call Loughrigg, so charming in its fine 

 form and varied surface of coppice, grove, and 



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