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a few days reading re Barbel

Great reading Graham.

Seems to me this chap had a wise old head on his shoulders, his last sentence in this paragraph is right on the mark ! :D

to the pool, and brought with her a large male com
mon river trout, when the poacher leistered, i. e.
speared, both of them. So that this fish had a dispo
sition to have a hybrid progeny ; but the poacher
being, no doubt, a man of great moral rectitude, would
not allow of any such disgraceful proceedings, and so
took the lady away from the temptation of doing so
again. It is a matter of speculation for the naturalist
how fish communicate with each other, and how this
female salmon seduced nine salmon to their ruin.
Examples of a similar kind are too often to be found
amongst the human race.
 
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