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enjoying. If we still retain enthusiasm, I trust 

 that you, and I, may both have another twenty 

 years of such enjoyment. 



Let us grow young early if we would keep 

 young long. 



And, if we cannot have quite that same eye- 

 sight and activity, we can retain the old keen- 

 ness unabated; with nothing to be ashamed of, 

 nothing to renounce, nothing to regret, if any 

 untoward accident should take away tiy fishing 

 from us, we can only bow in resignation to the 

 epitaph on Hasdrubal 



occidit, occidit 



spes omnis et fortuna nostri 



FINIS. 



