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history these laws display on subjects that 

 are much better known ; and you must be 

 aware that it is only within these few last 

 years that Yarrell's experiments have fully 

 established the identity of the salmon and 

 the jenkin. There are many, in fact, who do 

 not believe in it yet." 



"And what are Yarrell's experiments?" 

 said the Squire. " I, for one, am by no 

 means an implicit believer in that identity. 

 I should require some pretty convincing 

 proof." 



" The experiment was this," said the 

 Captain : " he diverted an offset from a 

 salmon river over a bed of loose gravel ; 

 over this he built a cage of iron and wire, 

 so firm that the smallest fish could not pass 

 through it, and into this cage he put a pair 

 of breeding salmon. In due time the 

 salmon-graves appeared, and the spawn was 

 laid up ; when he took out the parent fish, 

 who, like Saturn, devour their offspring, 

 and then patiently waited for the hatching. 

 The spawn hatched were Jenkins." 



" Well, Squire, that is pretty conclusive, 

 you must own," said the Parson ; " ' seeing,' 

 the proverb says, ( is believing.' " 



