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In a few more years my weighing machine will be old enough to make it six.
And may I not safely conclude that the incorrectness of this too powerful spring varies with the weight of the fishes. If a pound fish, for instance, is really one of a pound and a half, I expect a half-pound fish is no more than three-quarters of a pound. But a two-pounder is really three, a three-pounder four and a half, and a five-pounder seven.
This is obviously the only safe way to reckon.
A bright future opens before me.
