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is calculated that during the shad season a good shad-eater 

 will get from ten to fifteen bushels of bones from what shad 

 he eats. After the last shad is destroyed, he tears off his 

 shirt, sandpapers off the ends of the bones which are stick- 

 ing out through his skin, dons clean linen, and is himself 

 again. If we have in our remarks said aught that looks 

 as though we had wandered from the truth, we are willing 

 to vouch for correctness by furnishing all sceptics with a 

 written affidavit 



