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monks in possessing such ponds, and in cultivating fish, when 
there were plenty in the rivers and other waters not far off, as 
there were in those days? It was that they might have a certain 
supply instead of an uncertain one, and that they might have 
them just where they wanted them and as they wanted them, and 
they had them. And so may we have our fish ponds well 
stocked with magnificent trout as we want them, where we want 
them, and when we want them. 
