6 FISH HATCHING. 



them, to be converted into bank notes ; but 

 they want looking after ; they want culti- 

 vation. You must not kill your "golden fish" 

 (the " golden goose " may now retire on 

 half-pay), you must not watch the spawning 

 fish-mother to her nest, nor must you permit 

 others to do it for the sake of her unwhole- 

 some carcass (for which the French cook at 

 the Palais Royal will give you a franc or two), 

 destroy her, and at the same time thousands 

 of young fish. 



" 0, fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint !" 

 would dear old Virgil have said of the aquce- 

 culturist, if he had known what we now know. 

 You must not, friend, put your heel upon 

 yon mass of tiny round balls, which, if pro- 

 perly treated, would most assuredly, in about 

 four years, develop themselves into huge 



