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not envy. Now all is right again ; try that pool. 

 There is a fish ay ! and another, that runs at your 

 bait; but they are small ones, not much more than 

 twice as large as the bleak ; yet they show their spirit, 

 and though they cannot swallow it, they have torn it. 

 Put on another bleak. There, you have another run. 



ORN. Ay, it is a small fish, not much more than 

 a foot long ; yet he fights well. 



HAL. You have him, and I will land him. I do 

 not think such a fish a bad initiation into this kind 

 of sport. He does not agitate so much as a larger 

 one, and yet gratifies curiosity. There, we have him. 

 A very beautiful fish ; yet he has the leech, or louse, 

 though his belly is quite white. 



ORN. This fish is so like a trout, that, had 1 

 caught him when alone, I should hardly have remarked 

 his peculiarities ; and I am not convinced, that it is 

 not a variety of the common trout, altered in many 

 generations, by the predatory habits of his ancestors. 



HAL. How far the principle of change of 

 character and transmission of such character to the 

 offspring will apply, I shall not attempt to determine, 

 and whether all the varieties of the salmo with teeth 

 in their mouth may not have been produced from one 

 original; yet this fish is now as distinct from the 

 trout, as the charr or the umbla is ; and in Europe, it 

 exists only below great falls in streams connected 



