thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, as the eel-breeder said;

he always told one story over and over again, and if his hearers

laughed he would immediately repeat it to them. Jurgen while still a

boy, and also when he was older, used phrases from the eel-breeder's

story on various occasions, so it will be as well for us to listen

"The eels went into the bay, and the young ones begged leave to go

a little farther out. 'Don't go too far,' said their mother; 'the ugly

eel-spearer might come and snap you all up.' But they went too far,