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monsieur, si j'avais cru que vous auriez pu prendre 

 les saumons a la ligne, nous aurions fait un autre 

 arrangement." The affair did not seem to me to 

 admit of any argument. So on shaking his great 

 mutton fist I merely said, " Adieu, Huxley, ne vous 

 fachez pas contre moi, vous m'avez demande un 

 napoleon d'or, et je vous 1'ai donne." 



I will just mention, ere I conclude my stories of 

 fishing in the Rhine Falls and the excitement that 

 was caused amongst my black grimy friends of the 

 big hammer, that every week the account of my 

 sport was duly announced in the Schaffhausen 

 paper. 



