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he had obtained his desire, and both of us were 

 the richer by a happy memory. He called it 

 " a top-hole day!" 



" Hoping much, content with less." In 

 rny 'clerical friend, I fancy that I see the 

 making of a " Saturday " angler. 



iii. A Fragment of History. 



Now there was a certain country squire 

 possessed of a lake of goodly size having a 

 worthy reputation for pike, who did invite two 

 fishers to angle therein. With exceeding 

 eagerness they awaited the day of their desire 

 and when, in the fulness of time, it came, their 

 hearts were sore troubled, for behold, there 

 came with it plenteous rain and great darkness 

 throughout the land, insomuch that they shrank 

 from the prospect of an lopen punt, and gat 

 them, even at the station, sadly back to their 

 own homes instead. Whereupon the squire, 

 having much kindliness of heart, had pity on 

 their condition, and made them welcome to 



