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(or, as White says, " will fly at each other like 

 a pafcel of little bull-dogs,") and be long, 

 lanky in the body, with great bull-dog like 

 heads. The French authorities recommend 

 at this time that they should be fed with 

 the boiled flesh of frogs powdered into mi- 

 nute bits. The Stormontfield authorities 

 use boiled liver, powdering it in their hands, 

 and throwing it in. You must, however, 

 take care that it does not accumulate at the 

 bottom of the water, and thus imbue it with 

 putrescent matter. I should recommend that 

 the fish always be fed at a given spot, and 

 that a bit of cloth, or even a tin tray, or 

 other material should be placed at the bot- 

 tom of the water, at the spot where they are 

 fed, so that you can occasionally lift it out, 

 and with it all the bits of food not devoured 



