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running amongst the rocks ; and I have only 

 one small sea trout. 



HAL. Your fortune will come another 

 day. Why, you have not a single crimped 

 fish for dinner, and it is now nearly two 

 o'clock; and you have been catching for 

 the picklers, for those fish may all go to the 

 boiling house. I must again be your pur- 

 veyor. Can you point out to me any part of 

 this pool where you have not fished? 



ALL. No. 



HAL. Then I have little chance. 



PHYS. O yes! you have a charm for 

 catching fish. 



HAL. Let me know what flies you have 

 tried, and I may perhaps tell you if I have 

 a chance. With my small bright humming 

 bird, as you call it, I will make an essay. 



POIET. But this fishery is really very 

 limited; and two pools for four persons a 

 small allowance. 



HAL. If you could have seen this river 

 twenty years ago, when the cruives were a 

 mile higher up, then you might have enjoyed 

 fishing. There were eight or ten pools, of 



