"A brace!" "The same have favoured me—

So that's a pair of braces;

And if the sun will but lie hid

The fleecy, flutt'ring clouds amid,

For two short hours more

(Unless your arm be wearied out),

We'll line the bank with sparkling trout,

In number twice a score."

I said before, I anxious felt to learn

The old man's history,