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least to be less affected by it than most 

 creatures. 



J. I have heard many anecdotes of their 

 voracity, and of their insensibility to cor- 

 poral suffering after being hooked ; their 

 struggles then, which so horrify humane 

 people, would appear to be rather the effect 

 of their efforts to get away than the writh- 

 ing under torture. 



S. You will find it difficult to persuade 

 many people of that, and I have no incli- 

 nation to debate the matter, but I am well 

 acquainted with an angler who once unin- 

 tentionally caught a fish, and a trout too, 

 with its own eye ! 



J. Pardon my incredulity, but I was 

 not prepared for such a fact as that ! 



S. I do not ask you to believe it, but 

 I have perfect confidence in the veracity 

 of my friend, who assured me that having 

 hooked the fish foul, and torn out its eye, 

 he threw again, and the same trout seized 



