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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

THE TROUT.

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THE TROUT.

In Herefordshire the alder is called the aul, and the country people use the following proverbial lines:

When the bud of the aul is as big as the trout's eye,

Then that fish is in season in the river Wye.

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