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TILE ANdLER AND THE LITTLE E1SH. 



Ax Angler caught a small Trout, and as he was 

 taking it off the hook, and going to put it into his 

 basket, it opened its little throat, and begged most 

 piteously that he would throw it into the river 

 again. The man demanded what reason it had to 

 expect this indulgence? Why, says the Eish, be- 

 cause I am so young and so little, that it is not 

 worth your while taking me now, and certainly I 

 shall be better worth your notice, if you take me a 

 twelvemonth afterwards, when I shall be grown a 

 great deal larger. That may be, replied the 

 Angler, but I am sure of you now; and I am not 

 one of those who quit a certainty in expectation of 

 an uncertainty. 



