lcibiades. Ill A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 125 Why do you dislike the trout so ? asked Tom. My dear, we do not even mention them, if wecan help it; for I am sorry to say they are relationsof ours who do us no credit. A great many years agothey were just like us : but they were so lazy,… … properly punished for it; for they have grown uglyand brown and spotted and small; and are actually sodegraded in their tastes, that they will eat our children/ And then they pretend to scrape acquaintancewith us again, said the lady. Why, I have actuallyknown one of them propose to a lady salmon,…
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