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For the great guns go, in horrid salvos, unabated, and the crackling thunder of the small guns; "terrible tussling about those Carp-ponds, that quaggy Carp-husbandry," says the Schoolmaster, "and the Heavens blotted out in sulphurous fire-streaked smoke. What had become of us pacific? Some had run in time, and they were the wisest; others had squatted, who could find a nook suitable.
Hence, the revived attention to fish-breeding, an art wellnigh forgotten since the Reformation emptied the carp-ponds of the monks.
Old mahogany, pot-pourri, convivial song, wit, grace Peer saw it all in his mind's eye, and again and again he had to give vent to his feelings by seizing Merle and embracing her. "Oh, but look here, Merle you know, this is a fairy-tale." They passed out into the old neglected garden with its grass-grown paths and well-filled carp-ponds and tumble-down pavilions.
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