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The Incompleat Angler, 



They approach 

 the maidens. 



Guttler quoted, venerable Alderman Guttler^ that '' he 

 who would play a fish must not play 

 the fool." 



lTenatOl% I thank you, Master. 

 These words are worthy to keep a 

 room in every brain where, as the 

 Lawyers say, the memory of man 

 runneth not to the contrary. But I 

 think it is now milking time, and 

 yonder they be at it. 



^3t$catOt% On my word, a hand- 

 some milk-maid that hath not yet 

 attained so much age and wisdom 

 as to know the distinction between a 

 pike and the leg of a harmless lamb. 



"F^nator^ Ah, my kind Master^ 



how beneficent is Nature who has 



made the lamb 'armless and not 



leale^s ^"^ ^ ^-^ O Master O I ^"^ '-^ I 

 Smart retort. ICgiCSS. w, iviu^ier ^ \j . ± 



will never offend again. 



