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THE HUNCHBACK TROUT	A
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The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew	B
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too close together The creek was like telephone	C
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booths in a row with high Victorian ceilings and all the doors	D
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taken off and all the backs of the booths knocked out	A
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Sometimes when I went fishing in there I felt just like a	E
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telephone repairman even though I did not look like one I	F
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was only a kid covered with fishing tackle but in some	G
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strange way by going in there and catching a few trout I	F
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kept the telephones in service I was an asset to society	H
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It was pleasant work but at times it made me uneasy	H
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It could grow dark in there instantly when there were some	G
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clouds in the sky and they worked their way onto the sun	I
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Then you almost needed candles to fish by and foxfire in	J
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your reflexes	K
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Once I was in there when it started raining It was dark	L
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and hot and steamy I was of course on overtime I had that	M
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going in my favor I caught seven trout in fifteen minutes	N
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The trout in those telephone booths were good fellows	O
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There were a lot of young cutthroat trout six to nine inches	K
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long perfect pan size for local calls Sometimes there	P
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were a few fellows eleven inches or so for the long dis	Q
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tance calls	R
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I've always liked cutthroat trout They put up a good fight	S
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running against the bottom and then broad jumping Under	T
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their throats they fly the orange banner of Jack the Ripper	T
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Also in the creek were a few stubborn rainbow trout sel	U
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dom heard from but there all the same like certified pub	V
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lic accountants I'd catch one every once in a while They	W
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were fat and chunky almost as wide as they were long I've	X
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heard those trout called squire trout	A
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It used to take me about an hour to hitchhike to that creek	Y
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There was a river nearby The river wasn't much The creek	Y
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was where I punched in Leaving my card above the clock	Z
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I'd punch out again when it was time to go home	A2
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I remember the afternoon I caught the hunchback trout	A
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A farmer gave me a ride in a truck He picked me up at	M
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a traffic signal beside a bean field and he never said a word	B2
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to me	H
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His stopping and picking me up and driving me down the	E
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road was as automatic a thing to him as closing the barn	C2
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door nothing need be said about it but still I was in motion	I
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traveling thirty five miles an hour down the road watching	D2
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houses and groves of trees go by watching chickens and	E2
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mailboxes enter and pass through my vision	I
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Then I did not see any houses for a while This is where	P
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I get out I said	F2
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The farmer nodded his head The truck stopped	G2
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Thanks a lot I said	F2
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The farmer did not ruin his audition for the Metropolitan	I
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Opera by making a sound He just nodded his head again	H2
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The truck started up He was the original silent old farmer	T
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A little while later I was punching in at the creek I put	I2
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my card above the clock and went into that long tunnel of	J2
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telephone booths	K2
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I waded about seventy three telephone booths in I caught	L2
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two trout in a little hole that was like a wagon wheel It was	M2
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one of my favorite holes and always good for a trout or two	B
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I always like to think of that hole as a kind of pencil	N2
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sharpener I put my reflexes in and they came back out with	O2
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a good point on them Over a period of a couple of years I	F
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must have caught fifty trout in that hole though it was only	H
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as big as a wagon wheel	P2
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I was fishing with salmon eggs and using a size single	N2
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egg hook on a pound and a quarter test tippet The two trout	A
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lay in my creel covered entirely by green ferns ferns made	Q2
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gentle and fragile by the damp walls of telephone booths	K2
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The next good place was forty five telephone booths in	J
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The place was at the end of a run of gravel brown and slip	R2
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pery with algae The run of gravel dropped off and disap	R2
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peared at a little shelf where there were some white rocks	S2
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One of the rocks was kind of strange It was a flat white	S
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rock Off by itself from the other rocks it reminded me	H
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of a white cat I had seen in my childhood	T2
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The cat had fallen or been thrown off a high wooden side	U2
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walk that went along the side of a hill in Tacoma Washing	D2
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ton The cat was lying in a parking lot below	V2
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The fall had not appreciably helped the thickness of the	E
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cat and then a few people had parked their cars on the cat	M
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Of course that was a long time ago and the cars looked dif	W2
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ferent from the way they look now	X2
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You hardly see those cars any more They are the old	Y2
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cars They have to get off the highway because they can't	Z2
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keep up	R2
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That flat white rock off by itself from the other rocks	S2
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reminded me of that dead cat come to lie there in the creek	Y
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among telephone booths	K2
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I threw out a salmon egg and let it drift down over that	M
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rock and WHAM a good hit and I had the fish on and it ran	A3
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hard downstream cutting at an angle and staying deep and	E2
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really coming on hard solid and uncompromising and then	H2
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the fish jumped and for a second I thought it was a frog I'd	U2
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never seen a fish like that before	B3
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God damn What the hell	U
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The fish ran deep again and I could feel its life energy	H
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screaming back up the line to my hand The line felt like	C3
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sound It was like an ambulance siren coming straight at	M
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me red light flashing and then going away again and then	H2
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taking to the air and becoming an air raid siren	I
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The fish jumped a few more times and it still looked like	C3
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a frog but it didn't have any legs Then the fish grew tired	B2
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and sloppy and I swung and splashed it up the surface of	J2
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the creek and into my net	D3
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The fish was a twelve inch rainbow trout with a huge hump	R2
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on its back A hunchback trout The first I'd ever seen The	E
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hump was probably due to an injury that occurred when the	E
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trout was young Maybe a horse stepped on it or a tree fell	U
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over in a storm or its mother spawned where they were	T
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building a bridge	E3
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There was a fine thing about that trout I only wish I could	T2
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have made a death mask of him Not of his body though but	F3
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of his energy I don't know if anyone would have understood	T2
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his body I put it in my creel	P2
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Later in the afternoon when the telephone booths began to	B
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grow dark at the edges I punched out of the creek and went	G3
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home I had that hunchback trout for dinner Wrapped in	J
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cornmeal and fried in butter its hump tasted sweet as the	E
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kisses of Esmeralda	G3