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not easy, however, to keep entirely 

 within defensive limits ; for the temp- 

 tation was very strong and constant 

 to abandon negation and palliation 

 for the more pleasing task of com- 

 mending to the admiration and affec- 

 tion of mankind in affirmative terms 

 both fishing and fishermen. A deter- 

 mination to attempt this at another 

 time, and thus supplement the matter 

 then in hand, made resistance to this 

 temptation successful; but the con- 

 templated supplementation was then 

 foreshadowed in the following terms : 

 "The defense of the fishing frater- 

 nity which has been here attempted 

 is by no means so completely stated 

 as it should be. Nor should the world 

 be allowed to overlook the admirable 

 affirmative qualities which exist among 

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