Japan exceeds 20,000,000 and may reach a considerably higher number, and -the aggregate value of 

 the output cannot be less than half a million dollars. 



Goldfish in Japan arc so cheap that the poorest peasants buy them, and so dear that none but 

 the wealthy can afford them. Inferior examples of the commoner varieties may be bought for half 

 a cent apiece, which is probably less than is ever paid in any other country for any animated vertebrate 



The Selling House at a Koeiyama Goldfish Establishment 



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