made, no variation, no question as to tlie path. 

 On tlieir way up ttie river from tlie t)ay they 

 will pass other fresh- watei' streams, as large, even 

 larger, than Herring Eun. But their instinct is 

 true. They never turn aside until they taste 

 the Run, and though myiiads entei', a half-mile 

 farther uj) the river not a herring will Ije found. 

 It is easy to see how the ox might know liis 

 owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but hoA\' a 

 herring, after a year of roving through the sea, 

 knows its way up Herring Eun to the pond, is 

 past finding out. 



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