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Show The Nearest to It. Old Rodleigh was a very keen angler and believed in making up his own baits to lure his finny prey to destruction. He was a very hopeful sort of chap, you know. One day while staying in a fishing hotel in the highlands he asked the maid, Christine, if she could get him a horsefly. The girl eyed him in wonder, so he repeated his request, adding: "And have you never seen u horsefly. horse-fly. Christine?" "Na. I dimia," replied the girl. "Hut aince I saw a coo jump o'er a precipice." London Answers. |