A GOLDFISH STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)

A GOLDFISH STORY.

TWELVE-YEAR TRUANCY ENDS IN A ZOO TANK.

""PHE new aquarium at the Zoo has provided the last chapter in a remarkable flsh story, which, unlike most flsh stories, is true.

A gentleman having a pond in his garden on the Thames at Teddington, bought rare foreign goldfish 15 to 17 inches long, known as Hai Goi. That was twelve years ago. Then came a Thames flood which submerged the garden and the pond, and when it subsided it was found that one of the flsh had disappeared. Anglers from time to time declared they had seen a goldfish the size of a •carp, but they were not believed, especially as the flsh never took their bait.

Then a few weeks ago such a flsh was caught and taken to the aquarium. There it was identified by its former owner. To twelve years of wisdom had succeeded one moment of folly, and that moment was fatal. For a time the monster goldfish appeared,to be recovering from the hook. But it had gone too deep, and so after a few days it died.