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 parchment book at a marked page, and laid it on a flat stone, which served as a table, and then placed a skull and a couple of bones in a proper position near by.

The two now started off, the Pupil first putting a line and hook in his pocket, and pulling out a fishing-rod from under some bushes.

'What do you want with that?' asked the Stranger, 'we are not going to fish!'

'Why not?' said the Pupil; 'if we come to a good place, we might catch something that would be a real curiosity.'

Before long they came to a mountain brook, and here the Pupil insisted on trying his luck. The Stranger was a little tired and hungry, and so was quite willing to sit down for a time and eat something from his bag. The Pupil ran off to find some bait, and he stayed away so long that the Stranger had quite finished his meal before