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lead into instead of out of the trap, and the thing 

 is done. " I will make it of wire, put it on my 

 shelf, and I catch mice and rats. I will make it of 

 osier, sink it to the bottom of the sea, and I catch 

 lobsters and crabs. I will lay it in a rapid, and I 

 catch roach and dace ; I will place it under the river 

 banks, and then I have cray-fish." 



So might he soliloquise on the future achieve- 

 ments of his newly-discovered principle. But unless 

 he had the prophetic afflatus strong within him, 

 never would he imagine that in future times his 

 discovery would catch a monarch and an Elector to 

 boot. 



