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stration, as tliej are just finishing off the 

 perch and jack spawn, and will be ready in a 

 few da^^s for the roach, chub, and barbel. I 

 made a little calculation as to the quantity 

 of fish they keep from the river every year, 

 and at the very lowest computation that 

 can be made, it amounts to one hundred 

 millions. At a more reasonable and probable 

 calculation, it is possibly nearer a thousand 

 millions. No wonder sport is indifierent — no 

 wonder the roach and dace are disappear- 

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He is followed by Greville F. thus : "An 

 ow^ner of a piece of once-excellent and well- 

 stocked w^ater, near here (Kintbury on the 

 Kennett, near Admiral Dundas's), chuckled 

 mightily over the gift of three brace of 

 swans, which served two years to decorate 



