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time of excusable ignorance is past ; and now the 

 man who does not comprehend the grand possibili- 

 ties of fish-breeding, and who is unwilling to give 

 his vote for its extension, is quite unfit to represent 

 an intelligent constituency, and is himself a well, 

 a fish which is far less attractive to an artistic eye 

 than to an epicurean palate. The Mumford hatch- 

 ing-house and its zealous manipulator have re- 

 turned to the State and country a thousand fold for 

 all they have expended. But " the little-one " 

 should " become a thousand." From having the 

 only source of supply so diminutive and so obscurely 

 located that a stranger would waste as much time 

 in discovering its whereabouts as Diogenes did in 

 his vain search for an honest man, Seth Green 

 should be made the superintendent of State hatch- 

 ing-houses at a dozen points in the Adirondacks, on 

 lake Ontario, on the Hudson, and on several other 

 waters, so that fish might be made a source of as 

 great wealth to the State and of as great benefit to 

 the people as the hog and poultry crop combined. 

 Anglers may be deemed a useless race by men 

 who haven't juice enough in their composition to 

 perspire with the thermometer at 90, nor muscle 

 enough in then- right arm to cast an eight ounce 

 fly rod; but if their love of the sport and their 

 desire, in season, to be able to effectively cast their 

 lines in pleasant places, shall result in such an 

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