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trout for your dinner ; but I am glad to see, 

 before I take my leave of you, that Ornither 

 has likewise hold of a fish, and, from his 

 activity, a lusty sea trout. 



\He goes, and returns in the afternoon.^ 



HAL. Well, Poietes, I hope to see your 

 fish of 20 Ibs. 



POIET. Alas ! he broke me, turned sulky, 

 and went to the bottom ; and when he was 

 roused again, my line came back without the 

 fly ; so that I conclude he had cut my links 

 by rubbing them against some sharp stone. 

 But I have caught two grilses and a sea 

 trout since, and lost two others, salmons or 

 grilses, that fairly got the hooks out of their 

 mouths. 



HAL. And, Ornither, what have you done? 

 Well, I see, a salmon, a grilse, and a sea 

 trout. And Physicus ? 



PH vs. I have lost three fish ; one of 

 which broke me, at the top of the pool, by 

 running amongst the rocks ; and I have only 

 one small sea trout 





