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fishermen will once more be permitted to pursue their calling 
in peace. The group of pure scientists, who have for the 
last ten years sat with such disastrous results, like Sinbad 
the Sailor’s Old Man of the Sea, on the shoulders of our 
fishing population, will receive their due reward. When 
it is understood how great is the darkness in which they 
have presumed to legislate, posterity will give them a niche 
in the temple of fame as the fitting representatives at the 
end of the 19th century of dear worthy, honest, old Dame 
Partington, the account of whose efforts to hold back the 
tide with her mop for fear the sea beach should get wet, 
was one of the joys of our childhood. 
