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he was confined to his bed for two days, 

 and he was a strong, powerful, healthy man. 



I now show you a magnificent clean-run 

 fish, weighing between 30 and 40 pounds : 

 that is a salmon for the Englishman. That — 

 (pointing to the kelt) — is '•' vrai scmmoii 

 ecossais " of the Palais Royal cooks. 



These wretched poisonous fish are exported 

 to France under all possible disguises — some- 

 times packed in baskets as game, with the 

 feet and tails of game birds and beasts 

 protruding from the baskets, sometimes 

 even as fruit-trees. The British Fisheries 

 Preservation Association have taken the 

 matter up in a most praiseworthy manner, 

 and are doing their best, by appeals and 

 representations to Government authorities, 

 both in England and France, to stop this 



