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will study out the subject for themselves, for there is endless 

 amusement in the natural history of fish. I shall be amply 

 repaid if some of them take up the study, for I am sure their 

 pleasures would be all the greater and their angling excur- 

 sions all the brighter, for an extended knowledge of this 

 branch of the Great Creator's works. 



