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- > I believe I have omitted mentioning that, in my first voyage from
- > Boston, being becalm'd off Block Island, our people set about catching
- > cod, and hauled up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck to my resolution
- > of not eating animal food, and on this occasion consider'd, with my
- > master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder,
- > since none of them had, or ever could do us any injury that might
- > justify the slaughter. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had
- > formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the
- > frying-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between
- > principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were
- > opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I,
- > "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I
- > din'd upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people,
- > returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So
- > convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables
- > one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
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- License: Project Gutenberg License
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