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object, as are also the fishermen with their quaint garb, plain 

 speech, and their strange songs and calls with the hauling in of 

 the net. 



For much information on the fishing apparatus in use in 



FIG. 223. Fishing for Ayu in the Tanagawa, Japan. Emptying the pouch of 

 the cormorant. (Photograph by J. O. Snyder.) 



America the reader is referred to the Reports of the Fisheries in 

 the Tenth Census, in 1880, under the editorship of Dr. George 

 Brown Goode. In these reports Goode, Stearns, Earle, Gilbert, 

 Bean, and the present writer have treated very fully of all eco- 

 nomic relations of the American fishes. In an admirable work 

 entitled "American Fishes," Dr. Goode, with the fine literary 



