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atmosphere, and when immersed, they form 

 masses not unlike the wings of a drowned 

 fly, or one wetted in rising. 



It is now a quarter of an hour since we left 

 the large pool : let us return to it ; I see the 

 fish are again rising. 



POIET. I am astonished ! It appears to 

 me that the very same fish are again feeding. 

 There are two fish rising nearly in the same 

 spot where they rose before : can they be the 

 same fish ? 



HAL. It is very possible. It is not likely 

 that three other fish of that size should oc- 

 cupy the same haunts. 



POIET. But I thought after a fish had been 

 hooked he remained sick and sulky for some 

 time, feeling his wounds uncomfortable. 



HAL. The fish that I hooked is not rising 

 in the same place, and therefore, probably, was 

 hurt by the hook ; but one of these fish seems 

 to be the same that carried off your fly, and it 

 is probable that the hook only struck him in a 

 part of the mouth where there are no nerves ; 



