CHAPTER YII. 
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GOLD FISH, 
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.j/' ong before the Aquarium and its prin¬ 
ciples were understood, Gold and Silver 
Fish had become favourite pets, and 
were kept with more or less success in 
jpWj glass globes manufactured expressly. 
Their rich colouring and pleasing mo- 
tions made them very ornamental, and 
many elaborate structures were invented for their 
display. The globes were placed on richly deco¬ 
rative stands, surrounded with moss and flowers, 
and in some cases an inner globe was contrived, 
open with wire-work at the bottom, into which 
Canary birds were introduced, to be seen perching 
on branches of coral as though actually disporting 
themselves in the water among the Gold and Silver 
Fish; white Mice or Guinea Figs being sometimes 
substituted in the inner globe for the birds. 
The effect produced was fantastic, and not un¬ 
pleasing, and suited the imperfectly developed taste 
of the day; but in these times of international ex- 
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