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- Narrator: And so, this exhausted warrior returns to the cool shadows of the stream to recoup, and live. G'bye now!
- Narrator: The idea, of course, is to stay with it until the salmon wears himself out. If the fisherman wears out first, he'll be ridiculed by salmon everywhere the rest of his life.
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- Narrator: Fish tales - anyone who has ever held a line or a pole in his hands has heard them, and told them.