loO FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



carp, and this could be done without in any 

 Avay injuring the purity or healthiness of the 

 water, — at least, such is my present opinion, and 

 I have full belief in its success. The remedy to 

 be resorted to there is no need to dilate on, as 

 it is one that should be publicly referred to as 

 little as possible, though I am well aware that 

 a portion of this remedy for carp is known, and 

 that it has been and is often resorted to by the 

 thieves of fish, and that the fish — the common 

 white fish, chub, roach, and dace — thus taken, 

 have been and are sold for the table by thieves to 

 any customers who will buy them. 



If, as I believe, the thousands of the larger 

 carp could thus be safely and profitably reduced, 

 into such a lake situated like the one referred 

 to, I would then put as many pike as by possi- 

 bilit}^ could be procured to keep down the carp fry 

 that would be perpetually struggling into existence. 



The question may here be asked, if those 

 2)ike are thus encouraged and grow to an im- 

 mense size, as I am sure that in that lake they 

 would, what, then, is to l)econie of the feathered 

 inhahitants of tlic water proposed to be kept on 

 it, for the huge j^ike would destroy their young? 



My re})]y to tliis is, tliat on a lake of deej) 



