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Or—for a chevin is tenacious of purpose—he will shrink from public observation and will only show himself to the little children who sometimes play there, hopeful of their ignorant admiration. But I shall tell the children too.
Thus after a time he will learn the futility of his conduct and go away down or up stream whence he came, where other chevins are. There he will excite the cupidity of chevin fishers, but he will do it on his own merits. I trust that the lesson will sink in and that for the future he will content himself with being known for a moderate chevin rather than being mistaken for an impressive trout.
