FISH ESCAPE. &) 



stream, you are almost sure to lose him. 

 There, I have hooked the companion of 

 your lost fish, on the other side of the 

 stream, a powerful creature : he tries, you 

 see, to make way to the weeds, but I hold 

 him tight. 



POIET. I see you are obliged to run with 

 him, and have carried him safely through 

 the weeds. 



HAL. I have him now in the rapids on 

 the shallow, and I have no fear of losing 

 him, unless he strikes the hook out of his 

 mouth. 



POIET. He springs again and again. 



HAL. He is off; in one of these somersets 

 he detached the steel, and he now leaps to 

 celebrate his escape. We will leave this 

 place, where there are more great fish, and 

 return to it after a while, when the alarm 

 produced by our operations has subsided. 



It is now a quarter of an hour since we 

 left the large pool: let us return to it; I see 

 the fish are again rising. 



