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IX
THE BOYHOOD OF FIONN
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yet it is not as easy as that, for the bush can only be found by its own knowledge, and that knowledge can only be got by eating the nuts, and the nuts can be got only by eating the salmon."

"We must wait for the salmon," said Fionn in a rage of resignation.