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right without having to resort to any catch-penny devices 

 or circus methods of advertising, it has stuck to its type 

 of the Carboniferous era, believing that what was good 

 enough for its great-grandfather to the ;zth power is 

 good enough for it, and satisfied that it is about right, as 

 the true conservative should be. I can imagine that they 

 have an amused interest in the struggle of other creatures 

 to make a living, and that one meeting another might 

 say, after exchanging the compliments of the season: " I 

 seen Macropetalichthys suUii'anti the other day." 



44 Did you? How is Mac? Getting along swim- 

 mingly? ' 



" Well, I clunno. Looks like to me he wasn't makin' 

 much of a go of it? ' 



' No? You surprise me. Thought his up-to-date 

 methods were going to make us old fogies open our 

 eyes." 



" Oh, he said things was rushing. Said he was busy 

 night and day. But I clunno. I clunno. He didn't 



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look very prosperous." 



' Well, I guess he'll find he can't come in here and 

 upset everything quite so easy as he figured on. Old- 

 established community like this don't take up with new 

 ways in a hurry. Nice weather for this time o' year, aint 

 it? You just watch out and you'll see the sheriff '11 close 

 him out yet. Sorry for Mac too. Nice fellow, Mac is, 

 well-meanin' and all that, but law me! too too up-and- 

 comin', 'most, for a new arrival. Ought to kind o' set 

 back and keep still for a couple million years or so. 

 Well, I'll be goin' along. Why'n't you come up and see 

 a fellow once in a while? ' 



The sheriff did close out Macropetalichthys sullivanti, 

 and I don't know how many else besides, and those that 

 survive have often succeeded in hanging on only by 



