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THE WATER BABIES If I saw such a thing happen, I should consider it my duty to put them both to death upon the spot." So the old salmon said, like an old blue-blooded hidalgo of Spain; and what is more, he would have done it, too. For you must know, no enemies are so bitter against each other as those who are of the same race; and a salmon looks on a trout, as some great folk look on some little folk, as something just too much like himself to be tolerated.

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