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difficulty experienced in stripping it of its scales. There is 

 no need to scale the fish at all ; a perch boiled in his 

 jacket will slip out of his skin with ease, and reveal him- 

 self white and firm, and, served up with parsley sauce, is 

 well worthy of the praise of a past master in the Lodge of 

 Epicurism. 



