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lime to come of every tliinj? belonging to the 

 tish tribe. Is it not funny, what prejudice 

 will do? 



By this time a very genteol-Iooking man 

 came in. and somehow liis appearance seemed 

 to rather forbid conversation. I fnially decid- 

 ed, however, that I would see wliether it 

 were true that we can tell very much about 

 a man by his looks. He admitted that he 

 lived in Sandusky, and^was pretty well ac- 

 quainted, but answered so briefly that 1 was 

 almost discouraged on the carp question. 

 However, Ave'neai'edithe place, and necessity 

 made me bold. Oh^ yes! lie knew all abou't 

 the State lishery : had seen the little chaps 

 wiggle al)out in the glass jars. It was down 

 by the Avaterworks. He would show me the 

 place ; and after studying up the time of 

 trains, decided for me that by close figuring 

 I could get about twenty minutes for my 

 visit at the fishery. I began to repent a lit- 

 tle of my former imcharitable conjecture in 

 regard to him; and when the train slacked 

 up near the station, and he suggested we 

 had better jump off and run, trusting to the 

 chances of a street-car, I became a good deal 

 ashamed of myself. A car had just left, and 

 I slacked up my running, deciding that it 

 was too nearly "out of sight to leave any 

 chance for catching it. He. however, witli 

 a shrill whistle, brought them up. even 

 away off in the distance, got me into the car. 

 pointed out the line buildings of the city, 

 told me of a short cut to take in going back, 

 pointed out the hatchery, then nodded as he 

 left me, without seeming to tliiidc he had 

 done me any service at all : and yet jvithout 

 his kind assistance 1 should have entirely fail- 

 ed in my project, iind a day's work would have 

 been lost. 1 did thank him as well as I knew 

 how, and I mentally resolved to try never 

 again to be guilty of forming luicharitable 

 impressions of peojile of whom I know noth- 

 ing, for so silly a reason as that they look a 

 little bit ]troud and aristoeraiic. under juy 

 countriiied gaze. I feel ashamed of myself 

 eveiy time I think of it. AVhat a foolish 

 thing it is to think ill of a person voii don't 

 know! And, come to think of it. 1 do not 

 know but it is ten times more foolish to be 

 tempted to think ill of peo])le around y< u 

 whom you (?o know. May (iod have mercy 

 upon me a sinner, and I'fear a sad sinner 

 right in this line. 



The fish-building stood right on the sliore 

 of the lake, or liay, rather; in fad. it is 

 partly over the water. Long vats ijiside re- 

 mind one somewhat of a cheese-factory. In 

 the center of the building were long rows of 

 glass jars, perhaps several hundred of them. 

 Kach jar held, may be. three gallons. The 

 jars are called the ("hase automatic jar. 

 Water drawn from away out in the lake, 

 through the nu^dium of the . waterworks, 

 comes into the building near the ceiling. 

 It pours into the jars through a tube that 

 goes to the bottom of the jar. Of course, 

 this makes the water boil over. A lip to the 

 jar then pours it into a tube that goes into 

 the next jar, and so a gurgling stream of 

 water goes through the jars constanlly, day 

 and night, for many months, and Irom there 

 out into the lake. Well, these jars are tilled 

 with eggs of white fish in countless piillious. 



These eggs look like white pearls, about the 

 size of common shot. Patientlv the opera- 

 tives watch and wait natures time, for three 

 or four long months. Then the eggs, even in 

 this cold lake water, hatch out little fish, and 

 the fish wiggle out up through the jars, 

 and so out with the current into the lake, 

 and Lake Erie is peopled with white fishes. 

 Js i^not wonderful? _ _ _ 



They do not hatch carp in that way.~ Carp 

 are hatched in ponds, as described in the 

 different articles that have appeared. But 

 along the vats, along the outside of the 

 building, little^ carp of all sizes were swim- 

 ming. The gentlemanly superintendent. 

 Mr. Henry Douglas, scooped up a lot of them 

 with a little net attached to a frame that 

 just filled the vat. By pushing this down 

 the center of the vat, and moving it toward 

 the end. all the fish that could not go through 

 the meshes of the net were pulled up at one 

 haul. The fish did not seem to be troubled 

 or alarmed about it. I picked up a miiror 

 carp about the size of my hand, and he lav 

 still while 1 admired hini. as if it were the 

 most natural thing in the world. IIow I 

 did wish that Iluber were there! He has 

 lately learned to express liis admiration or 

 thanks by saying '' nice.'" But he can not 

 say the whole word, and so he just says 

 •Mii"." When I feed him at the table, and 

 give him something, he looks up with an 

 appreciative twinkle in his blue eyes, and 

 ejaculates •' ni"."" So it is with an apple, or 

 any thing else to a<lniire. One dav he put 

 out his little fat leg, and giving it a i)at with 

 his soft hand said to me inquiringly. ■' I'apa. 

 ni"V' Well, I presume the juveniles who will 

 likely read this would have almost screamed 

 with delight to have seen these little fishes. 



By the way. as soon as I have l)egun to 

 study carp, the whole finny tribes have be- 

 come wonderfully beautiful and fascinating 

 in my eyes. How can one ever a])preciate 

 tiu' nice C ni" "") things in this world unless 

 he has looked into it and studied it and be- 

 conu* intimately aciiuainted with itV Dur- 

 ing the past year 1 have learned to love most 

 intensely (niite a imnd)er of things that 1 

 never loved before. For instance. I love 

 strawberry-plants, and I tell you I really 

 feel a thrill of hajipiness everv time I jiass a 

 garden with a ]iretty i)lat of "thrifty, nicely 

 cared-for strawberries. Well, when 1 cross 

 a bridge a little bevond this gaiden. and 

 eatcli a glimpse of the fimiy tribes gliding 

 al)out over the gravelly l)ed. I feel another 

 thrill of hai)i)iness. VVhen I went over to 

 the college farm with oin- good friend l^rof. 

 Cook, with a munberof other bee-friends, to 

 stay over nisht, there were several things 

 that made me happy. One was a great clus- 

 ter of poinseltia in'the greeidiouse. almost 

 dripping with honey. We licked it out of 

 the cu[)-shaped blossoms, and when we came 

 around again there was anotJier supply al- 

 most ready to be ''licked '" again. Friend 

 Cook's young hopeful, "J>ertie.'" was just 

 getting crazy on poultry when 1 was there : 

 and as that iised to Ijc'my boyhood hobby, 

 Bertie and I soon had many ideas in com- 

 mon. While they were hitching up to go 

 back to the conveiition, Bertie and I and his 

 littje sister had a chase out around the barns 



