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with it, and go through a hundred graceful move- 

 ments ; then are motionless, then begin to play, 

 and so continue for nearly an hour, when, as if 

 suddenly alarmed, they rush down-stream to their 

 feeding-grounds. Fishing is continued through 

 the darkness, until, in the dewy meadow, another 

 sound comes up the wind, and the deep, sonorous 

 voice of an otter-hound breaks into the fairy- like 

 dawn scene. 



