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which you would buy in coming home, to 

 save yourselves from being laughed at. 



Oliver. Thorney-backs and minnows! I 

 should like much to catch a few of your 

 trouts. But you shall see. Waiter, let the 

 hostler bring up that hamper of trouts and 

 the pike which we caught this afternoon. 

 A pike it is a halbert of a fish a very 

 weaver's beam ! 



Enter HOSTLER, with a tolerably well Jilled 

 basket of trouts and a pike. 



Bell. Well done ! These are something 

 better than thorney-backs, after all. I dare 

 say you have nearly a stone and a half of 

 trouts here, and some of them really prime 

 ones. You have been lucky in hooking the 

 skeggers to-day ; if you continue as you have 

 begun you will rouse the jealousy of your 

 brother anglers. 



Oliver. Skeggers ! Why surely you do 

 not call those fine trouts, of from two to 



