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PARIS FISHMONGERS LIVE FISH FISHPrivate Private J R Durkin writing from France puts it this way wayI I have been to Paris lately and at the house of Felix Potin saw the way they handle food In the fish department they have marble troughs running all round the place These are full of the choicest fish all alive I counted eighteen different kinds of fish swimming about Some of them would weigh twenty to thirty pounds If you want to buy the salesman plunges a net into the trough and you have your finny beauty fresh from its native element They certainly do these things better in France than anywhere else I have been What a Godsend it would be if our fishmongers were as enterprising as Felix Potin
