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Show I Know lrdgfl mill lllHtilll't. James Hogg, it Scotch poet known as ; tho Kttrick Shepherd, was a close ob- j server of life under many different forms ! and conditions. A conversation with a fellow shepherd upon the habits of tho salmon is reported, in which shrewd l:ativo reasoning is shown. It brings out the Scotch love of metaphysics, Shepherd I maintain that ilka san-mon san-mon comes aye back again frae the sea till spawn in its ain water. Friend Toot, toots, Jamie! Hoo can it manatt" till do that? Hoo, in tho name o' wonder, can a fish, traveling up a turbid water ira, the rea, know when it reaches the entrance to its birthplace, or that it h:ui arrived at the tributary that was its cradle? Shepherd Man, the great wonder to ! me is no boo the fish get back, but hoo they Jind their way till thu sea first ava, j seein' that they've never been there j afore! Youth's Companion. I |