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angling. There the fish is born, and every one 

 of the twenty dozen which a little boy may take 

 in a day with a bent pin and thread, might, in all 

 probability, in three or four months, be a sufficient 

 meal for a dozen people. This I would stop, by 

 prohibiting angling for small fish, or with small 

 hooks, during the month of April and part of 

 May ; for, as one witness very properly remarked 

 to the Committee of the House of Commons, 

 *' it is purchasing a very little personal amuse- 

 ment at an enormous cost to the community." 



