. The pet book. Pets. GOLDFISH. NE of the most interesting joiirneys imaginable wotild be to travel in Ancient China where the ancestors of the goldfish in our aquarixim lived. For it might take us back into ancient China and along the streams which flow into those magnificent rivers which sweep from .the high motintains in eastern China to the great rich plains of the coast. And we shotild pass strange cities beset with beautiful temples, and we should see Chinese men dressed in their robes of silk, the color of peach blossoms or apple blossoms or blue like the sky or purple as the violets. A
. The pet book. Pets. GOLDFISH. NE of the most interesting joiirneys imaginable wotild be to travel in Ancient China where the ancestors of the goldfish in our aquarixim lived. For it might take us back into ancient China and along the streams which flow into those magnificent rivers which sweep from .the high motintains in eastern China to the great rich plains of the coast. And we shotild pass strange cities beset with beautiful temples, and we should see Chinese men dressed in their robes of silk, the color of peach blossoms or apple blossoms or blue like the sky or purple as the violets. And we should find playing by the banks of the stream little children dressed in every color of the rainbow, and the little girls might perhaps be toddling about on their tiny bandaged feet. And if we shoiild find this ancestral fish we would find with it many companions in the picttiresque stream, because the Chinese have been the best managers of fish in the world. We in America are thousands of years behind the Chinese in intelli- gence in the preserving of fish. Froni times too ancient to be recorded in history, the Chinese have yearly taken loads of water in which there is spawn of fish, and have carried them to safe ponds where the newly hatched fry could be fed, usually with lentils or yolks of eggs. The result is that although China is over-populated, having at least three hundred persons to the square mile, while there are 226. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930; Lord, Henry B. ins; Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-1970 ins; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. ins. Ithaca, N. Y. : Comstock
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