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will certainly never come back again, if they 

 are never put in." * It is far from impossible? 

 nay it is even probable, that they will come 

 back when the new sewers are in operation, 

 and the Thames water is made considerably 

 purer than it is now. Besides this, it must be 

 recollected, that salmon remain several months 

 in the river before they go down to the sea, 

 and if we continue to turn them down every 

 year, some of them will be in a fit state to 

 run down to the sea and come back again 

 when this new drainage is in operation. 

 Anyhow, they will be caught as young fish, 

 and this week (May 8th) I hear that " skeg- 

 gers " (the name applied, in former days, to 

 young salmon) in the Thames have been 



* We can turn young salmon into the Thames at the rate of 

 about four a penny. 



