`` Several times , my dear . Indeed , it was only last night that one at the river 's mouth came and warned me and my wife of some new stake-nets which had got into the stream , I can not tell how , since last winter , and showed us the way round them , in the most charmingly obliging way . '' `` So there are babies in the sea ? '' cried Tom , and clapped his little hands . `` Then I shall have some one to play with there ? How delightful ! '' `` Were there no babies up this stream ? '' asked the lady salmon . `` No ! and I grew so lonely . I thought I saw three last night ; but they were gone in an instant , down to the sea . So I went too ; for I had nothing to play with but caddises and dragon-flies and trout . '' `` Ugh ! '' cried the lady , `` what low company ! '' `` My dear , if he has been in low company , he has certainly not learnt their low manners , '' said the salmon . `` No , indeed , poor little dear : but how sad for him to live among such people as caddises , who have actually six legs , the nasty things ; and dragon-flies , too ! why they are not even good to eat ; for I tried them once , and they are all hard and empty ; and , as for trout , every one knows what they are . '' Whereon she curled up her lip , and looked dreadfully scornful , while her husband curled up his too , till he looked as proud as Alcibiades . `` Why do you dislike the trout so ? '' asked Tom .
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