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THE TOWN-MEETING AT BLUE ROCK 

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IDN'T know that fish held town- 

 meetings ? That shows how your 

 education has been neglected. A 

 town-meeting is an assembly; fish 

 assemble; therefore, fish hold 

 town-meetings. Isn't that con- 

 clusive? But the fact is one of experience as well 

 as of logical deduction. It can be " mediated " by 

 the faith of every disciple of the immortal Izaak. 

 This is the unadorned and veracious account of 

 one of these piscatorial gatherings, held on an 

 August day in Caine River, New Brunswick, 

 seventeen miles from the nearest house. They had 

 been gathering for days. Prominent citizens were 

 there from Big Rock, five miles down the river, and 

 almost every inhabitant of the Forks, three miles up 

 stream, had answered to roll-call. A large number 



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