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CHAPTER II. 



PISCATOR AND VENATOR. 



VENATOR. My friend Piscator, you have kept time with' my 

 thoughts ; for the sun is just rising, and I myself just now 

 On the Otter come to this place, and the dogs have just now 

 and the Chub. put down an Otter. Look ! down at the bottom 

 of the hill there, in that meadow, chequered with water-lilies and 

 lady-smocks ; there you may see what work they make ; look ! look ! 

 you may see all busy ; men and dogs ; dogs and men ; all busy. 

 Piscator. Sir, I am right glad to meet you, and glad to have 

 so fair an entrance into this day's sport, and glad to see so many 

 dogs, and more men, all in pursuit of the Otter. Let us compli- 

 ment no longer, but join unto them. Come, honest Venator, let 

 us be gone, let us make haste ; I long to be doing ; no reasonable 

 hedge or ditch shall hold me. 



Venator. Gentleman Huntsman, where found you this Otter ? 

 Huntsman. Marry, Sir, we found her a mile from this place, 

 a-fishing. She has this morning eaten the greatest part of this 

 Trout ; she has only left thus much of it as you see, and was 

 fishing for more ; when we came we found her just at it : but we 

 were here very early, we were here an hour before sunrise, and 



