THE SACRED FISH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 25 October 1912, Page 3

THE SACRED FISH.

.Now that China is a republic, it womd be mcyresting to know what has become oi the sacred fish which in the days oi the empire could be eaten only by the Emperor of China mad his foJK and the I'jmperor .of Itussia and his folk. This fish is an exquisite delicacy so delicious and so rare that it has been reserved for royal palates from time immemorial. The fishermen whose duty it was to take it from the only stream in which it has been known to exist— a smaU river lying between Russian and Chinese domains —have had orders to let none of it be diverted from its noble destiny. Whether the fishermen themselves ever yielded to what one can imagine as an overmastering passion and indulged in a secret midnight repast of the glorious little fish of course none ca.n say. But certain it is that the ordinary Chinaman woxild have turned shuddering away from a banquet in which the prohibited fish was an item, no matter how his mouth watered for the dainty.