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distracted child, wliosc tottering ^^Constitution" 

 has so many blatant nurses offering different 

 remedies. 



If Mr. Eenett, or any other of our landed gentry, 

 have large quantities of these, in all instances, far 

 overrated fish, let him order his teams, with the 

 leave of the surveyors, to collect the heaps of road 

 sand from the sides of the highways, and let him 

 make a heap as large as he likes, or sufficiently 

 large to overpower the smell of, and to absorlD 

 the quantity of carp. Let this heap be turned 

 over at given periods, and the carp thus amal- 

 gamated in its proportions, and as far as that heap 

 goes, he will have the finest manure possible. If 

 his lands are light, let some old thatches that 

 have chanced to he pulled off ricks or cottages, 

 be mixed in this heap also, simply to hold the 

 manure together, and then, I am sure, when Mr. 

 Benett, or any other large proprietor, sees in the 

 following spring the effect upon his crops, he will 

 wish for more carp for that purpose ^ for more carp 

 anywhere, in fact, than in a dish before him. 



The most extraordinary sight in regard to 



carp I ever saw, was in a still, liot day in the 



summer of 1872, in the lake situated in the midst 



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