CHAPTER VIII. 



FISH-PONDS. 

 I. 



ISH-PONDS, as well as their usual 

 inhabitants, the so-called " coarse 

 fish," take high rank among the 

 undeveloped possibilities of this 

 country. By fish-ponds, we do not 

 mean a tank at the end of the garden, in which 

 a few plethoric members of the finny tribes eke 

 out a somnolent existence; but ponds established 

 on a sound system, with a business eye directed 

 to the profits they will surely return to their 

 proprietor. 



We who have the good fortune (or otherwise) 

 of living in these palmy days of the nineteenth 

 century, surrounded by scientific developments 

 of all kinds, are rather inclined to look back 

 with scorn at the amount of knowledge possessed 



