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bottom. I cannot see what he is, yet he should be a good 

 fish by his weight : but he makes no great stir. 



Pise. Why then, by what you say, I dare venture to 

 assure you 'tis a grayling, who is one of the deadest-hearted 

 fishes in the world ; and the bigger he is, the more easily 

 taken. Look you now, you see him plain ; I told you what he 



Grayling. Haddon Hall in the distance. 



was. Bring hither that landing-net, boy. And now, sir, he 

 is your own ; and believe me a good one, sixteen inches 

 long I warrant him : I have taken none such this year. 



Fiat. I never saw a grayling before look so black. 



Pise. Did you not ? why then let me tell you, that you 

 never saw one before in right season : for then a grayling is 

 very black about his head, gills, and down his back ; and 

 has his belly of a dark grey, dappled with black spots, as 

 you see this is ; and I am apt to conclude, that from thence 

 he derives his name of umber. 1 Though I must tell you 

 this fish is past his prime, and begins to decline, and was in 

 better season at Christmas than he is now. But move on, 

 for it grows towards dinner-time ; and there is a very great 



1 Others say, that the name umber, signify ing "sha/ow," is given be- 

 cause the fish swims so fast as to pass like a shadow. Hi NSIE. 



