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can, for if the master, or any of the keepers see you, 

 they will lock you up as a madman. 



The gentleman then walked rapidly away. 



Yery soon after, the angler was rather startled by 

 seeing two men issue from the house, and approach 

 him hastily ; they inquired if he had seen a gentleman 

 pass, describing him, and if so, which way, and told 

 him that the gentleman was a lunatic who had escaped. 

 The angler pointed out the way the gentleman had 

 gone, and he was soon captured. The master of the 

 establishment went out and thanked the angler for 

 the information he had given, which led to the cap- 

 ture of his patient, and seeing the angler was poor, 

 made him a present for the assistance he had rendered, 

 when the angler repeated the conversation that had 

 taken place, and it found its way into ^* Examples of 

 the lucid intervals of insane per sons. ^^ 



Another anecdote, though not relating to angling, 

 showing the acute reasoning of insane persons during 

 their lucid intervals, may probably be admitted here, 

 M. Baron, who was, previous to the Reign of Terror 

 in France, during the first Revolution, the most cele- 

 brated harlequin of the French stage, was obliged to 

 fly to this country for safety, and first became head 

 waiter, and afterwards proprietor of the Cafe de 

 quatre Nations, at the corner of Nassau and Gerrard 

 Streets, Soho. About 1807-8 I frequently dined at 



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