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The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)

London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 510

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THE CRYSTAL PALACE—THE JACK TANK. ^rrdjTHEN, in the winter of 1862-3, I began aquarium work ^tfV/) in the Zoological Gardens, Hamburg, there came te r»c) me a well-known German dealer in natural-history objects, who had been long settled in London, who warned me bottle into the aquaria under my… … THE JACK TANK. against what he believed to be the mean and mercenarycharacter of the Hamburg people, who, he said, would, aftergetting out of me whatever knowledge I possessed, turn me adrift,and put in my place a German at a less salary. So he told mealways to keep in my pocket a little bottle…

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