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with it, and go through a hundred graceful move- 
ments; then are motionless, then begin to play, 
and so continue for nearly an hour, when, as if 
suddenly alarmed, they rush down-stream to their 
feeding-grounds. Fishing is continued through 
the darkness, until, in the dewy meadow, another 
sound comes up the wind, and the deep, sonorous 
voice of an otter-hound breaks into the fairy-like 
dawn scene. 
