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as though we had been subjected to the process 

 of electrotyping. I would not be thought vain, 

 but I look back, even now, with feelings of 

 pride and delight, at the image memory conjures 

 up of the beautiful appearance we presented. 

 Glancing through the water, we glittered like 

 fire-flies in the air. Our strength had increased 

 in the same ratio as our beauty, and, when I 

 say that our form was nearly as possible that 

 winch I now present, I need hardly say it was 

 faultless." 



" Really, sir !" I interposed, " for a gentleman 

 who disclaims vanity " 



" Sir ! I assert that the form of a salmon, 

 fresh run from the sea, is faultless. Could the 

 vigour he displays, could the strength he pos- 

 sesses, be lodged in any form short of faultless? 

 Could he ascend the cataract could he stem 



the roaring torrent could he " The old 



gentleman was getting into such a state of 

 ebullition that I hastily checked him with a 

 torrent of profuse apologies, not unmixed, I fear 

 with a smpfon of flapdoodle, the stuff which 

 Mr. O'Brien informed Peter Simple they feed 

 fools on. Somewhat pacified, he proceeded : 



" With my increasing vigour, a strange feel- 



