KAHLES. 



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THE FISHERMAN. 



A certain fisherman having laid his nets in the 

 river, and placed them across the whole stream 

 from one side to the other, took a long pole, and 

 fell to beating the water to make the fish strike into 

 his nets. One of his neighbours seeing him do so, 

 wondered what he meant, and going up to him, 

 Friend, says he, what are you doing here? Do you 

 think it is to be suffered that you shall stand 

 splashing and dashing the water, and making it so 

 muddy, that it is not fit for user Who do you 

 think can live at this rate? He was going on in 

 a great fury, when the other interrupted him, and 

 replied, I do not much trouble myself how you 

 are to live with my doing this ; but I assure you 

 I cannot live without it. 



