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1. To suffer more fish to spawn of all ages and 

 sizes. 



2. To prevent any fish from being killed in rivers 

 after spawning. 



3. To prevent the young salmon and salmon 

 fry from being killed. 



NOTES. 



head part happened to fall to his share; the fish was a 

 female and had a great quantity of pea, but they were not 

 in a very forward state, being about the size of swan shot. 

 The next day his wife boiled part of this fish for their din- 

 ner, but it was not eatable; it looked like glue; the ap- 

 pearance was enough to turn a man's stomach ; and it was 

 of course thrown away. He was displeased with his wife 

 for not having boiled it properly ; but she maintained that 

 she had dressed it as she had always dressed salmon before. 

 He then enquired of his companion how his part of the 

 salmon turned out, and was answered, that it was good for 

 nothing, and totally uneatable. He was then convinced 

 that the fish was out of season ; this was in the month of 

 September ; and he immediately buried what remained, the 

 Jish and the pea, in his dunghill. He did this as secretly as 

 possible, being ashamed lest any one should discover such 

 a thing in his possession. — After this he thought no more 

 of the buried fish, concluding that the whole would rot and 

 perish. About two months afterwards, he sold the heap 

 of dung to a person of the town, who sent a man with a 

 horse to carry it into his field for manure. By the time 

 this man had dug a little way into the heap of dung, the 

 fellow began to hop and caper about, crying "snakes' eggs! 

 snakes' eggs !" — and laid about him in all directions with 

 his shovel, to crush and destroy them. He had himself no 



