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to cut and remove weeds and assist in netting. He 

 did this because he thought that he might reform this 

 man by treating him well and bringing him in contact 

 with the respectable, hard-working men who con- 

 stituted the rest of the netting gang, and in this case 

 his judgment was correct, and the man was employed 

 by us for several years. So far as the keeper knew 

 he never poached our river after his first day with 

 the nets. 



