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Show How Red Herrings Came. Tho first red heirlng was accidentally accident-ally produced In Euglnnd many years ago by u flshermun, who, having a Bur-plus Bur-plus of fresh herring, hung them up In a smoky shed to dry and then forgot for-got all about them. When he looked at them some time after ho found that they hod chonged In color. The king, to whom the fishes were presented, pre-sented, was so interested that he gave permission to tho fisherman to ex-titbit ex-titbit them around tho country as strange monsters. |