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The Lonely Goldfish
Years ago I bought a plastic heron for our pond. It’s pretty hideous and didn’t seem to keep the real herons at bay. Suddenly, this afternoon, I discovered how to use it properly when I went to buy some new goldfish. “Do those plastic herons actually do any good?” “Yes they do but there’s a trick to it. You have to keep on moving them around the pond. A heron is an intelligent bird,” the girl that is in charge of fish responded. “We have a problem here with all these tanks of fish. One evening we saw a heron arrive near closing...
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