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ing small fish there yesterday morning. 

 Some minnows, ho ! and the perch rods ! 



HAL. I am tired, sir, and would willingly 

 avoid minnow fishing after such a morning's 

 sport. 



HOST. Come, then, I will be a fisher for 

 the table. I have one and another, that 

 will weigh nearly a pound a piece. Now, 

 there is a cunning perch that has stolen my 

 minnow; I know he is a large one. He has 

 robbed me again and again; and if I fish on 

 in this way, with the hook through the up- 

 per lip, will, I dare say, carry away all the 

 minnows in the kettle. I shall put on a 

 strong small hook, on a stout, though fine, 

 gut, with slender wire round the top, and 

 pass the hook through the back fin of the 

 minnow, and try my sagacity against his. 

 Lo! I have him! and a very strong fish he 

 is, and gone to the bottom; but even though 

 the greatest perch in the river, he cannot 

 bite the gut, he will soon be tired and 

 taken. He now comes up, and is landed, 

 He must be above 31bs. a magnificent 

 perch ! Kill him and crimp him, fisherman ; 



