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there is a wonderful difference between theory 

 and practice, talking or reading, and doing; 

 he therefore was bent on becoming an angler. 

 And he began to please his good wife with 

 the thoughts of having trout for supper, and 

 she absolutely looked into their old cookery- 

 book to see how they were to be dressed, and 

 while she was reading the directions, he could 

 not help smacking his lips, for his mouth really 

 watered, as he was remarkably fond of fish, 

 which was not surprising, seeing that he was 

 a Roman Catholic, and a bit of fish was all 

 he dare eat for days and weeks together. 



It may, however, be remarked, that he had 

 not been a Roman Catholic all the former part 

 of his life ; but he had been into their chapel, 

 gazed on their splendid paintings, their lighted 

 up altar-piece, their gorgeous array, listened 

 to their mystic intonations, their harmonic 

 singing, their pealing organ, and, like ten 

 thousand other weak-minded and superstitious 

 ones, he had become quite infatuated with 

 them, though he knew no more about the 

 doctrines of Romanism than a donkey knows 

 about the science of botany. And, with all 

 due respect to Roman Catholics, we cannot 

 help thinking, and saying, that we are of 



