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body in the water, gibbering and mowing, and how 

 he was never able to walk upright again, or explain 

 what It was he had seen sitting in the gloomy hollow 

 above. No earthly consideration in the shape of 

 money or whisky would induce any man, woman, or 

 child who knew this story to go there at dusk ; and 

 indeed most of them avoided the place altogether, 

 and the grim tenant had it pretty much to himself. 

 For it was only in high water, and when the most of 

 the other pools were unfishable, that it was any use 

 coming here. As a rule the water came in, passed 

 round the half-circle, and went out again with little 

 perceptible motion. 



All being ready, one of the men waded out to 

 a little spit of gravel and began to fish the pool, and 

 then might be seen that anomaly so puzzling to an 

 Eastern mind the master commencing a day of very 

 hard work and the servant sitting idle and watching 

 him. There seemed, however, nothing incongruous 

 about it to them. The long-legged keeper found 

 himself a comfortable seat on the bank, and lit his 

 pipe, but he did not spend the time in gazing idly 

 about; on the contrary, even when performing that 

 nice operation, he never took his eyes off the water, 

 he kept them fixed a little below where the line cut 

 it, and his shout of " There he is ! " was simultaneous 

 with the same exclamation of the other. The fisher- 

 man waded back to shore, sat down also on the bank, 

 and proceeded to light his pipe. 



