CHAPTER V. 



INTERIOR OF A POOL ON THE RIVER. 



Enter two TROUT. 



1st Trout. 'Tis getting on in the summer, com- 

 rade; we shall have a hatch of stone-flies ere long, 

 and fill our bellies quietly, without risk of being 

 tongue-grappled by a treacherous torture-iron, in 

 shape of a fat insect. Ay! we shall have to pick 

 and choose upon, and can look before we leap. 



'Id Trout. This caution, neighbour, won't worjs: 

 always. Should I, for instance, take to conjecturing 

 about a fine morsel I see floating towards me, up 

 pops a hungry-headed kelt or some such grim 

 glutton, and away it vanishes. Speculation would 

 make us as lean as eels ; so better trust to chance 

 than take to suspicion. However, as you say, this 

 weather will give us abundance see, there are 



