If things went badly with our ventures on certain running dogs, and we sat gazing soulfully at the beautiful colour of the "goldfish, Wong would silently appear, stand awhile, and fade away. We are sure -that Wong has heard the legend of the hunchback and luck, and feared to catch us stroking one of the fish.
Each morning he would change the water in which his charges swam, removing a certain quantity and replacing it with similar fluid which had been allowed to mellow in a bowl overnight, in order, ax he explained to make it a "little more soft." He apparently regarded the' fish as rather like-the man who complained that the Wubbles in champagne bruised his.
Despite these attentions a green deposit formed on the sides of the bowl, Wong did not mind, indeed Yegarded its growth with a wonderfal "equanimity. We, however, die-approved, but found no cure until, visiting friend one day, we found tone aquatic mails in' his bowl, which he explained ate the algée And kept the glass beautifully clean.
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